9-letter words containing p, y, r
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- 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
- dry spell — a prolonged period of dry weather.
- drying up — When you do the drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.
- 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.
- dyspraxia — inability to perform coordinated movements.
- dyspraxic — Of or pertaining to dyspraxia.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- employers — Plural form of employer.
- empyreans — Plural form of empyrean.
- empyreuma — the smell and taste associated with burning vegetable and animal matter
- encrypted — Being in code; having been encrypted.
- encrypter — A thing, such as an algorithm, a program, or a device, that encrypts.
- epeolatry — the worship of words
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epigraphy — The study and interpretation of ancient inscriptions.
- epirogeny — epeirogeny
- eriophyid — a type of microscopic mite that causes plant damage
- eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
- eurytopic — (of a species) able to tolerate a wide range of environments
- eutrapely — conversational skill
- examplary — Obsolete form of exemplary.
- exemplary — Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.
- expiatory — Of or pertaining to expiation.
- expletory — Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous.
- expressly — Explicitly; clearly.
- 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.
- fair play — just and honorable treatment, action, or conduct: The political campaign was notably lacking in fair play.
- ferrotype — to put a glossy surface on (a print) by pressing, while wet, on a metal sheet (ferrotype tin)
- 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
- 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.
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- gray pine — jack pine.
- gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.