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13-letter words containing p, e, n, y

  • extended-play — denoting an EP record
  • fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
  • ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
  • free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
  • genotypically — With reference to a genotype.
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • grand drapery — a valance across the proscenium arch, forming part of the decorative frame for the stage.
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • gypsy setting — a setting, as on a ring, completely enclosing the girdle of the stone.
  • heavy petting — Informal. intense petting that involves mutual stimulation of the genitals but not sexual intercourse.
  • hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
  • herniorrhaphy — correction of a hernia by a suturing procedure.
  • honey creeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
  • honeycreepers — Plural form of honeycreeper.
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydromorphone — A synthetic narcotic analgesic, (4,5 alpha-epoxy-3-hydroxy-17-methyl morphinan-6-one), similar to morphine and heroin. It is used for moderate to severe pain under the trade name Dilaudid.
  • hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
  • hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
  • hymenorrhaphy — (medicine) Reconstructive surgery in which a woman's hymen is restored to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
  • hypercyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
  • hyperextended — Extremely long; extended greatly.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • hyperimmunize — to render highly immunized
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hypernatremia — an abnormally high concentration of sodium in the blood.
  • hypernephroma — Renal cell carcinoma.
  • hyperpersonal — Very highly personal.
  • hyperphrygian — (in ancient Greek music) of a principle mode found between the hyperlydian and the hypolydian
  • hyperrational — characterized by excessive rationality
  • hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
  • hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
  • hypersplenism — an abnormal condition characterized by an enlarged spleen that prematurely destroys red blood cells or platelets.
  • hypersthenite — a person who possesses an excess of muscle strength
  • hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
  • hypertonicity — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
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