7-letter words containing p, y, e
- plaguey — such as to plague, torment, or annoy; vexatious: a plaguy pile of debts.
- plassey — a village in NE India, about 80 miles (128 km) north of Kolkata: Clive's victory over a Bengal army here (1757) led to the establishment of British power in India.
- playlet — a short play.
- playpen — a small enclosure, usually portable, in which a young child can play safely alone without constant supervision.
- plebify — to make popular or vulgar
- plenary — full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified: plenary powers.
- plovery — characterized by or having many plovers
- plumery — a collection of plumes
- polyene — a hydrocarbon containing two or more double bonds, often conjugated.
- polymer — a compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller molecules, as polyethylene, or by the condensation of many smaller molecules with the elimination of water, alcohol, or the like, as nylon.
- polyped — a being or object having many legs: Her favorite toy is a bug-shaped polyped.
- pomeroy — a variety of dessert apple
- poovery — male homosexuality
- popeyed — marked by bulging, staring eyes: a young boy popeyed with excitement.
- potency — the state or quality of being potent.
- pothery — humid; stuffy
- pottery — ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware.
- poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
- powdery — consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.
- pre-buy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- pre-pay — If you pre-pay something or pre-pay for it, you pay for it before you receive it or use it.
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- presley — Elvis (Aron) 1935–77, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer.
- pretype — to foreshadow
- prey on — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- preyful — predatory
- preying — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- primely — excellently.
- progeny — a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
- protyle — a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were supposed to have been formed
- prudery — excessive propriety or modesty in speech, conduct, etc.
- pryderi — the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon who was stolen by Gwawl shortly after his birth and was restored to his parents a few years later.
- psyched — psych1 .
- psykter — a wine jar with an ovoid body tapering at the neck, set on a high foot: used for cooling wine.
- pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- ptolemy — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- puckery — puckered.
- pudency — modesty; bashfulness; shamefacedness.
- puffery — undue or exaggerated praise.
- pussley — purslane
- putrefy — to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.
- pyaemia — a diseased state in which pyogenic bacteria are circulating in the blood, characterized by the development of abscesses in various organs.
- pycnite — an off-white to yellow variety of topaz
- pye-dog — an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and other countries in east and south Asia.
- pylades — a son of Strophius who befriended Orestes, accompanied him in his wanderings, and eventually married Electra, sister of Orestes.
- pyretic — of, pertaining to, affected by, or producing fever.
- pyrexia — fever.
- pyrites — pyrite.