10-letter words containing p, y
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- procrypsis — a protective coloration in animals
- procryptic — serving to conceal an animal from predators.
- proctology — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prominency — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- promissory — containing or implying a promise.
- promontory — a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- promptuary — a storehouse
- proof copy — a copy of (a book, story, etc) made from trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) for the correction of errors
- propensely — with propensity
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- propulsory — the act or process of propelling.
- propylaeum — Often, propylaea. a vestibule or entrance to a temple area or other enclosure, especially when elaborate or of architectural importance.
- proslavery — favoring slavery.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- protervity — petulance
- protonymph — the newly hatched form of various mites
- protophyte — a single-celled plant of the class Protophyta
- prototyper — An interface builder for the Macintosh from Smethers Barnes.
- prototypic — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
- protoxylem — the part of the primary xylem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- prowlingly — in the manner of a prowl
- proximally — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- proxy vote — a vote cast by a person's representative
- psephology — the study of elections.
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- pseudology — lying considered as an art.
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- psyched up — psychologically prepared
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychicism — the belief in or study of psychic phenomena
- psychicist — a psychic
- psychogony — the development or origin of the soul or mind
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- psychopomp — a person who conducts spirits or souls to the other world, as Hermes or Charon.
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- ptolemy ii — (surnamed Philadelphus) 309?–247? b.c, king of Egypt 285–247? (son of Ptolemy I).