9-letter words containing p, e, r, y
- hyperform — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by hypercorrection.
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hypernyms — Plural form of hypernym.
- hypernymy — the state or quality of being a hypernym or superordinate (a general class under which a set of subcategories is subsumed).
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- hyperopia — a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused behind the retina, distant objects being seen more distinctly than near ones; farsightedness (opposed to myopia).
- hyperopic — Farsighted; of, having, or pertaining to hyperopia.
- hyperoxia — (pathology) A condition caused by an excess of oxygen in tissues and organs.
- hyperoxic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperoxia.
- hyperpnea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
- hyperpure — extremely pure or completely uncontaminated
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypertext — a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially.
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- ivorytype — an antiquated photoprinting technique in which two prints are made of the same image, and the weaker one, made transparent with varnish and colored on the back, is laid over the stronger one.
- joypopper — a person who takes addictive drugs occasionally without becoming addicted
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keg party — a beer bust.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leap year — (in the Gregorian calendar) a year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400.
- leprosery — a hospital for leprosy sufferers
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- nonplayer — a person that is not playing
- operantly — In an operant manner.
- operatory — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- operosely — In an operose manner.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- optometry — the practice or profession of examining the eyes, by means of suitable instruments or appliances, for defects in vision and eye disorders in order to prescribe corrective lenses or other appropriate treatment.