10-letter words containing p, y
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- blimpishly — in a blimpish manner
- blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- blue poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
- body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
- body punch — a blow to the body of an opponent
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- boob happy — suffering from the mental strain caused by the difficulties of prison life
- booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
- booty bump — a method of administering the recreational drug methamphetamine, in which the drug is mixed with water then injected into the rectum with a needleless syringe
- buggy whip — horsewhip
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- bush poppy — tree poppy.
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capnomancy — divination by observing smoke patterns
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- cardplayer — a person who plays cards
- carpellary — (botany) Of or pertaining to carpels.
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- celioscopy — celoscope.
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- chaplaincy — A chaplaincy is the building or office in which a chaplain works.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- cheapishly — in a fairly cheap manner
- cherry pie — any of several plants having flowers with an odor suggestive of cherries, as the heliotrope.
- cherry-pie — a widely planted garden heliotrope, Heliotropium peruvianum
- cherrypick — Alternative spelling of cherry-pick.
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chlorophyl — Alternative form of chlorophyll.
- chomophyte — any plant that grows on rocky ledges or in fissures and crevices
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- cityscapes — Plural form of cityscape.
- cladophyll — a green, flattened branch arising from the axil of a leaf, with the shape and functions of a foliage leaf
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper