10-letter words containing p, y
- pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- payability — to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- pearl gray — a very pale bluish gray.
- pearl grey — a light bluish-grey colour
- peary land — a peninsula in N Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean: Cape Morris Jesup is at its N end. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- peerlessly — in a peerless manner
- pelvimetry — measurement of the diameters of the female pelvis, especially the birth canal.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- penguinery — a group, colony, or enclosure of penguins
- penis envy — the repressed wish of a female to possess a penis.
- penitently — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
- penny ante — a game of poker in which the ante or limit is a very small amount, as one cent
- penny post — (formerly) any of various postal systems delivering mail for a penny a letter.
- penny-ante — involving a trifling sum of money; small in amount: a penny-ante investment.
- penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- pennycress — any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
- pennyroyal — an aromatic Old World plant, Mentha pulegium, of the mint family, having clusters of small purple flowers and yielding a pungent essential oil used medicinally and as an insect repellent.
- pennyworth — as much as may be bought for a penny.
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- peptolysis — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- percursory — passing through rapidly; cursory
- peremptory — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
- perikaryon — cell body.
- perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- periphyton — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- perl-byacc — A modified version of byacc that generates a parser in Perl code, by Rick Ohnemus <[email protected]>. It has a "-p" switch so multiple parsers can be used in one program (C or Perl). Version 1.8.2 should work on most Unix systems. It also works with SAS/C 6.x on Amiga.
- permanency — permanence.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
- perplexity — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
- perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- personably — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- personally — through direct contact; in person; directly: I will thank him personally.
- personalty — personal estate or property.