8-letter words containing p, a, y
- bi-party — representing two distinct parties: a biparty investigating committee.
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- capacity — The capacity of a container is its volume, or the amount of liquid it can hold, measured in units such as litres or gallons.
- cape ray — a promontory in SW Newfoundland, Canada
- caprylic — of or relating to an animal odor: the caprylic odor of a barn.
- capybara — the largest rodent: a pig-sized amphibious hystricomorph, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, resembling a guinea pig and inhabiting river banks in Central and South America: family Hydrochoeridae
- chapatty — Archaic spelling of chapatti.
- chapelry — the district legally assigned to and served by an Anglican chapel
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- chupatty — Alternative spelling of chapatti.
- clay pit — a pit or mine from which clay is extracted
- claypans — Plural form of claypan.
- clypeate — shaped like a round shield
- compathy — feelings, as happiness or grief, shared with another or others.
- copyable — able to be copied
- copycats — Plural form of copycat.
- copyread — to subedit
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- culpably — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- cyclopia — a congenital defect characterized by fusion of the orbits into a single cavity containing one eye.
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- damp-dry — (of something, such as a garment, that has been drying) nearly dry but still damp
- dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- day camp — a camp for children providing no sleeping facilities and attended only during the day on weekdays.
- day pass — a ticket that, once bought, enables you to use, travel on or access something free for one day
- day trip — A day trip is a journey to a place and back again on the same day, usually for pleasure.
- day-trip — to travel as a day-tripper.
- daypacks — Plural form of daypack.
- diaglyph — any instance of artwork carved into the surface of a hard substance (predominantly stone or metal), such that the design is set back from the surface; an intaglio
- diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
- disapply — (transitive, legal) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied.
- displays — Plural form of display.
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- dyspathy — antipathy.
- dyspneal — Alt form dyspnoeal.
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- e-piracy — the illegal uploading of digital copies of copyrighted works to a website, or the illegal downloading of such material.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- empyreal — Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean; celestial; sublime; exalted.
- empyrean — Belonging to or deriving from heaven.
- endplays — Plural form of endplay.
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- ependyma — (anatomy) A thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricular system of the brain and the spinal cord.
- epically — In an epic manner.