8-letter words containing p, y, l
- multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
- myophily — pollination of plants by flies
- naphthyl — containing the naphthyl group.
- net play — play made from a position close to the net
- olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- optology — the science of testing eyes for lenses
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- pallidly — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- pally up — to become friends (with)
- palm bay — a town in E Florida.
- palpably — readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident: a palpable lie; palpable absurdity.
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- paralogy — false reasoning
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- passably — fairly; moderately: a passably good novel.
- pastorly — of or relating to a pastor
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- paul pry — an inquisitive, meddlesome person.
- pay deal — a negotiation or agreement concerning pay or salary
- payables — debts to be paid
- pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
- peddlery — the business of a peddler.
- pedology — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelology — the study of the therapeutic uses of mud
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phylarch — the chief of a tribe in Ancient Greece, and in Athens, the head of a clan in battle, or generally, the chief of a tribe
- phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection
- phylesis — evolutionary events that modify an organism or group of organisms without leading to the formation of a new species
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- phyllary — one of the bracts forming the involucre or the head or inflorescence of a composite plant.
- phyllite — a slaty rock, the cleavage planes of which have a luster imparted by minute scales of mica.
- phyllode — an expanded petiole resembling and having the function of a leaf, but without a true blade.
- phyllody — the abnormal transformation of a floral structure into a foliage leaf.
- phylloid — leaflike.
- phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
- physalia — a marine invertebrate, often confused with a jellyfish, that has a painful sting
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.