9-letter words containing p, y, o, r
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cyprinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinoidea, a large suborder of teleost fishes including the cyprinids, characins, electric eels, and loaches
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- deceptory — inclined to deceive
- demoparty — (demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
- depletory — Serving to deplete.
- drop away — become fewer
- dry point — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- dry slope — an artificial ski slope used for tuition and practice
- dryomorph — any member of the extinct genus Dryopithecus.
- dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- employers — Plural form of employer.
- epeolatry — the worship of words
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epirogeny — epeirogeny
- eriophyid — a type of microscopic mite that causes plant damage
- eurytopic — (of a species) able to tolerate a wide range of environments
- expiatory — Of or pertaining to expiation.
- expletory — Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- eye drops — Eye drops are a kind of medicine that you put in your eyes one drop at a time.
- eyeopener — Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
- eyepopper — a very exciting thing
- fair copy — a copy of a document made after final correction.
- ferrotype — to put a glossy surface on (a print) by pressing, while wet, on a metal sheet (ferrotype tin)
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- 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.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- gyropilot — automatic pilot.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.