8-letter words containing p, y, i
- hyphenic — relating to a hyphen
- hypnosis — an artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion.
- hypnotic — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- hypoacid — relating to a lower than normal level of acidity
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- hyponoia — a slow mental function or imagination
- hyposmia — A reduced ability to smell and to detect odours.
- i-player — a service provided by the BBC, allowing its recently broadcast television programmes to be viewed over the internet
- icy pole — an ice cream or water ice on a stick
- idiotype — the molecular arrangement of amino acids unique to the antigen-binding site of a particular antibody.
- imparity — lack of parity or equality; disparity, difference, or inequality.
- impishly — In an impish manner; mischievously.
- imployed — Simple past tense and past participle of imploy.
- implying — to indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated: His words implied a lack of faith.
- impolicy — The state or act of being impolitic.
- impunity — exemption from punishment.
- impurely — In an impure manner.
- impurify — To make impure.
- impurity — the quality or state of being impure.
- inky cap — any mushroom of the genus Coprinus, especially C. atramentarius, characterized by gills that disintegrate into blackish liquid after the spores mature.
- isohypse — (meteorology) A line on a map connecting points of equal height of a given pressure level.
- isospory — the condition of having spores of only one kind
- isotropy — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- isotypic — of or relating to an isotype.
- key grip — the chief stagehand on a movie set.
- kopiykas — Plural form of kopiyka.
- kyphosis — an abnormal, convex curvature of the spine, with a resultant bulge at the upper back.
- kyphotic — Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- lampyrid — any of several beetles of the family Lampyridae, comprising the fireflies.
- lapidary — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidify — To become stone or stony.
- lily pad — the large, floating leaf of a water lily.
- limpidly — In a limpid manner.
- linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
- lip-sync — the technical process by which this is done.
- lipocyte — fat cell.
- lycopsid — Any primitive plant of the division Lycopodiophyta.
- lymphoid — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- lynchpin — a pin inserted through the end of an axletree to keep the wheel on.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- mistyped — Simple past tense and past participle of mistype.
- mistypes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mistype.
- mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
- multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
- myophily — pollination of plants by flies
- myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
- neohippy — A new age hippy.
- nitpicky — Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.