9-letter words containing p, y, o, s
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- employees — Plural form of employee.
- employers — Plural form of employer.
- endoscopy — (medicine) the examination of a bodily orifice, canal or organ using an endoscope.
- engyscope — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a microscope
- epicotyls — Plural form of epicotyl.
- epigynous — (of flowers) having the receptacle enclosing and fused with the gynoecium so that the other floral parts arise above it
- eponymous — (of a person) giving their name to something.
- exposedly — In an exposed way.
- 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.
- fetoscopy — examination by means of a fetoscope.
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- foppishly — In a foppish way.
- genotypes — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- geophytes — Plural form of geophyte.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- gossypine — relating to cotton
- gossypose — raffinose.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- 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.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- horoscopy — Archaic. the casting or taking of horoscopes.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hypinosis — a protein deficiency or reduction in blood
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotism — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotist — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypodense — Less dense (than normal).
- hypogeous — underground; subterranean.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- hypopyons — Plural form of hypopyon.
- hypospray — (science fiction) A kind of jet injector.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.