15-letter words containing p, y, e
- threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
- to fly the coop — If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.
- to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
- type 1 diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
- type 2 diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
- type i diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
- u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
- umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
- unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
- unary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which one element is used to yield a single result, as squaring or taking the square root.
- uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
- uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- uninterruptedly — in a manner that is not broken, discontinued, or hindered
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- unparliamentary — not parliamentary; at variance with or contrary to the methods employed by parliamentary bodies.
- unprecedentedly — without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- up to your ears — If you are up to your ears in something, it is taking up all of your time, attention, or resources.
- up to your eyes — If you say that you are up to your eyes in something, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of it to deal with, and often that you are very busy.
- upper extremity — arm
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
- vice-presidency — the position of a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic, esp of the US, and serves as his deputy
- vindhya pradesh — a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
- walleye pollock — a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.
- water pennywort — any of numerous perennial herbs of the genus Hydrocotyle, of the parsley family, having rounded leaves and living in water or marshy places.
- whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
- xerographically — In a xerographic way; by xerography.
- xeroradiography — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
- yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.
- you can keep it — I have no interest in what you are offering
- young pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
- zygophyllaceous — belonging to the Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family of plants.