10-letter words containing p, y
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- supernanny — an expert who advises parents on how to deal with badly-behaved children
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- suppliancy — suppliance2 .
- supplyment — the act of supplying; replenishment
- supposably — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
- supposedly — assumed as true, regardless of fact; hypothetical: a supposed case.
- suretyship — the relationship between the surety, the principal debtor, and the creditor.
- suspensory — a supporting bandage, muscle, ligament, etc.
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympathise — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- symphilism — a type of sociable symbiosis by which an insect is a nourished guest of an ant or termite colony
- symphilous — of or relating to symphilism
- symphonion — a 19th-century mechanical music player
- symphonist — a composer who writes symphonies.
- symphonize — to play or sound together harmoniously.
- symphysial — of, relating to, or noting a symphysis.
- symposiast — a person who attends or participates in a symposium.
- symptomize — to be a symptom or sign of.
- synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- synaptical — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- synopsises — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
- syphilitic — pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis.
- tachygraph — tachygraphic writing.
- tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- taffy pull — a party at which taffy is made
- tall poppy — any plant of the genus Papaver, having showy, usually red flowers. Compare poppy family.
- tardy slip — a slip of paper given to students who are late for school
- tautophony — the repetition of a sound
- tawny port — a type of port that is aged in wood for at least 7 years, giving it a 'nutty' flavour; its colour is tawny, as opposed to the red of a ruby port
- telegraphy — the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
- teletypist — a person who operates a teletypewriter.
- temporally — of or relating to time.
- temporalty — secular things
- terpolymer — a polymer consisting of three different monomers, as ABS resin.
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- therophyte — a plant living only one year or one growing season.
- thixotropy — the property exhibited by certain gels of becoming liquid when stirred or shaken.
- threepenny — of the amount or value of threepence.
- timor pony — a small stocky breed of pony originally bred in Timor, used on Australian ranches
- tipsy cake — a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit
- toddy palm — any of several tropical Asian palms, as Caryota urens or Borassus flabellifer, yielding toddy.
- tomography — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- toothy-peg — a word for tooth used in speaking to young children