9-letter words containing p, y, l
- hippology — the study of horses.
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- homophily — The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind.
- homophyly — a resemblance due to common ancestry.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homotypal — of normal type
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- hoplology — the study of weapons or armour
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hydropult — a type of water pump or machine that expels water by means of hand power, as, for example, a fire extinguisher
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
- hypnology — the science dealing with the phenomena of sleep.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocotyl — the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle.
- hypoploid — having a chromosome number that is less than the diploid number.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- implicity — implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
- impliedly — involved, indicated, or suggested without being directly or explicitly stated; tacitly understood: an implied rebuke; an implied compliment.
- imputably — In an imputable manner; by imputation.
- in plenty — If there are things in plenty, those things exist or happen in large amounts or numbers.
- incapably — In an incapable manner.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
- insipidly — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopolity — equal rights of citizenship, as in different communities; mutual political rights.
- isopropyl — containing the isopropyl group.
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- key plate — (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- lady palm — any of several palms of the genus Rhapis, native to southeastern Asia and cultivated as houseplants.
- lalopathy — any defect of speech.
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- laypeople — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leap year — (in the Gregorian calendar) a year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400.