10-letter words containing p, y
- play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
- playacting — to engage in make-believe.
- playbroker — play agent.
- played out — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playfellow — a playmate.
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- playleader — a person who leads or assists with organized children's play
- playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
- playreader — a person who reads and evaluates plays, as for a publisher, producer, or theatrical company.
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- pleadingly — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasantly — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
- plebeianly — in a plebeian manner
- pleiotropy — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
- plerophory — the presence of total assurance regarding a religious doctrine
- pleurotomy — surgical incision into the pleura, esp to drain fluid, as in pleurisy
- pleximetry — the practice of using a pleximeter
- pliability — easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
- ploddingly — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- plottingly — in a plotting manner
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- plutolatry — the worship of wealth or material possessions
- pluviosity — of or relating to rain; rainy.
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- pogey bait — candy or a treat used to lure a child into a sexual situation.
- pogonotomy — the cutting or shaving of a beard
- poignantly — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- point duty — the stationing of a policeman or traffic warden at a road junction to control and direct traffic
- poison ivy — a vine or shrub, Rhus radicans, having trifoliate leaves and whitish berries and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- polar body — one of the minute cells arising from the unequal meiotic divisions of the ovum at or near the time of fertilization.
- polemology — the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
- pollutedly — in a polluted manner
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polyatomic — pertaining to a molecule containing more than two atoms.
- polyaxonic — relating to a polyaxon
- polybasite — a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.
- polycarpic — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polychroic — having many colours
- polychrome — being of many or various colors.