9-letter words containing p, y, r
- hypertext — a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially.
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hypocracy — Misspelling of hypocrisy.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- hypomorph — a mutant gene
- hypophora — (rhetoric) A device in which the author poses a question which is in turn answered.
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- hypospray — (science fiction) A kind of jet injector.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- improbity — lack of honesty or moral scruples.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- ionotropy — the reversible interconversion of a pair of organic isomers as a result of the migration of an ionic part of the molecule
- isopropyl — containing the isopropyl group.
- ivorytype — an antiquated photoprinting technique in which two prints are made of the same image, and the weaker one, made transparent with varnish and colored on the back, is laid over the stronger one.
- joypopper — a person who takes addictive drugs occasionally without becoming addicted
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keg party — a beer bust.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- 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.
- leprosery — a hospital for leprosy sufferers
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lipotropy — the process of breaking down excess fat in the human body
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- microcopy — a microphotographic copy of a printed page or the like, as in microfilm or microfiche.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- monotropy — polymorphism that is irreversible.
- myatrophy — myoatrophy.
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- myomorpha — A major division of the rodents that includes the rats, mice, voles, hamsters, and their relatives.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- nonparity — the condition of having no parity; the state of not being equal