10-letter words containing p, y
- imposingly — very impressive because of great size, stately appearance, dignity, elegance, etc.: Notre Dame, Rheims, and other imposing cathedrals of France.
- impossibly — not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
- impotently — not potent; lacking power or ability.
- improbably — not probable; unlikely to be true or to happen: Rain is improbable tonight.
- improperly — not proper; not strictly belonging, applicable, correct, etc.; erroneous: He drew improper conclusions from the scant evidence.
- improperty — (obsolete) impropriety.
- impudently — of, relating to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery: The student was kept late for impudent behavior.
- impudicity — immodesty.
- in company — When you are in company, you are with a person or group of people.
- incapacity — lack of ability, qualification, or strength; incapability.
- incipiency — the state or condition of being incipient.
- inculpably — In an inculpable way; blamelessly.
- inexpertly — not expert; unskilled.
- inexpiably — In an inexpiable manner or degree; permitting no atonement.
- inoperancy — The quality of being inoperant or inoperative, of lacking the power to be effective or effectual.
- insipidity — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- interglyph — a surface between two grooves, as on a triglyph.
- interparty — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- intraparty — within a political party
- intrepidly — In an intrepid manner; fearlessly; daringly; resolutely.
- iron putty — a compound of iron oxide and boiled linseed oil for caulking pipe joints.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- ivory palm — the palm bearing the common ivory nut.
- james espy — James Pollard [pol-erd] /ˈpɒl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
- jellygraph — a device that uses a plate of jelly to make copies of a sheet of writing, etc
- jockey cap — a cap with a long visor, worn by jockeys.
- jockeyship — the art or skill of a jockey
- jouy print — toile de Jouy.
- joy-popper — Slang. to take a narcotic drug occasionally, but without being an addict.
- karyolymph — The liquid part of the nucleus of a cell.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.
- karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.
- karyotypic — Of or pertaining to karyotypes.
- keepy-uppy — the act or an instance of keeping a ball off the ground by bouncing it repeatedly on a foot, knee, or head
- kelyphitic — as in kelyphitic rim, a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock
- key player — The key players in a particular organization, event, or situation are the most important people or things involved in it.
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- keypuncher — A keypunch.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- kirby grip — type of hairgrip
- kryptonate — (inorganic chemistry) To infuse a solid with krypton gas (especially with radioactive krypton-85).
- kryptonite — The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an Achilles' heel.
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- kymography — The use of a kymograph.
- lady apple — a small, yellow apple with a red blush, grown as a specialty variety, and used for eating and in commercial canning.
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.