9-letter words containing p, y, l
- emphlysis — the outbreak of blisters on the body
- employees — Plural form of employee.
- employers — Plural form of employer.
- employing — Present participle of employ.
- endolymph — The fluid in the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
- epeolatry — the worship of words
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epicotyls — Plural form of epicotyl.
- epicycles — Plural form of epicycle.
- epicyclic — Of, or relating to epicycles.
- epochally — In an epochal manner.
- equal pay — the right of a man or woman to receive the same pay as a person of the opposite sex doing the same or similar work for the same or a similar employer
- esemplasy — unification
- eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- eutrapely — conversational skill
- examplary — Obsolete form of exemplary.
- exemplary — Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.
- exemplify — Be a typical example of.
- expletory — Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous.
- exposedly — In an exposed way.
- expressly — Explicitly; clearly.
- fair play — just and honorable treatment, action, or conduct: The political campaign was notably lacking in fair play.
- fell pony — a British breed of large and heavy ponies, found in the hills of N England
- file type — (file format) The kind of data stored in a file. Most modern operating systems use the filename extension to determine the file type though others store this information elsewhere in the file system. The file type is used to choose an appropriate icon to represent the file in a GUI and the correct application with which to view, edit, run, or print the file. Different operating systems support different sets of file types though most agree on a large common set and allow arbitrary new types to be defined. See also MIME.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- fly press — a hand-operated press in which a horizontal beam with heavy steel balls attached to the ends gives additional momentum to the descending member used to punch or compress material
- flypapers — Plural form of flypaper.
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- flyspecks — Plural form of flyspeck.
- foppishly — In a foppish way.
- foul play — any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
- gyropilot — automatic pilot.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- halophily — the ability or predisposition to thrive in an extremely salty environment
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- hand-play — the practice of fighting with fists
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- haplology — the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word, as in substituting morphonemic for morphophonemic or in the pronunciation [prob-lee] /ˈprɒb li/ (Show IPA) for probably.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- helpfully — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.