9-letter words containing p, e, r, y
- orphreyed — embroidered with gold
- orthopedy — Archaic form of orthopedics.
- overapply — To apply to excess.
- overhappy — too happy
- pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pack-year — a measure of the amount of cigarettes a person has smoked over an extended period, equal to one packet of 20 every day for one year
- paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
- pageantry — spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- panegyric — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- paralysed — unable to move and with no feeling
- paralyses — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parcenary — joint heirship or coheirship; the undivided holding of land by two or more coheirs.
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
- parhypate — a note in ancient Greek music, the second lowest note in the two lowest tetrachords
- parleyvoo — to speak French
- parlyaree — Polari.
- parquetry — mosaic work of wood used for floors, wainscoting, etc.; marquetry.
- parsleyed — cooked with or sprinkled with parsley
- partygoer — a person who enjoys or frequently attends parties and celebrations.
- passer-by — a person passing by.
- passersby — a person passing by.
- paternity — the state of being a father; fatherhood.
- pay grade — the grade of a member of the armed services established according to a scale of increasing amounts of base pay and related to but not identical with official rank.
- pay offer — an offer of a certain amount of wages or salary
- pay raise — an increase in wages or salary
- payloader — a heavy, wheeled vehicle with a large, movable blade or scoop at the front.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- payrolled — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
- payroller — a wage earner, especially a government employee.
- peak year — a year when something reaches its point of greatest development, strength, etc
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
- peer gynt — a play (1867) by Henrik Ibsen.
- pellitory — any of various urticaceous plants of the S and W European genus Parietaria, esp P. diffusa (pellitory-of-the-wall or wall pellitory), that grow in crevices and have long narrow leaves and small pink flowers
- pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pep rally — a meeting, especially of students before an interscholastic athletic contest, to stimulate group enthusiasm by rousing talks, songs, cheers, etc.
- perfectly — in a perfect manner or to a perfect degree: to sing an aria perfectly.
- perfumery — perfumes collectively.
- pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
- perikarya — parts of nerve cells that contain the nuclei
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- perimetry — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- periphery — the external boundary of any surface or area.
- periptery — a peripteral building.