10-letter words containing p, y
- clappy-doo — a large black mussel
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- clypeiform — having a rounded shield shape
- co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.
- colposcopy — an examination by means of a colposcope.
- compactify — to make or become compact
- companying — Present participle of company.
- comparably — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- compatibly — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
- competency — Competency means the same as competence.
- completely — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completory — serving the purpose of completing
- complexify — to make or become complex
- complexity — Complexity is the state of having many different parts connected or related to each other in a complicated way.
- compliancy — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicacy — the condition or quality of being complicated
- complicity — Complicity is involvement with other people in an illegal activity or plan.
- componency — the quality of being in components
- composedly — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- copolymers — Plural form of copolymer.
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copy press — a simple machine for printing many copies of a document
- copycatted — Simple past tense and past participle of copycat.
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- copyedited — Simple past tense and past participle of copyedit.
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- corn poppy — a poppy, Papaver rhoeas, that has bright red flowers and grows in cornfields. Since World War I it has been the symbol of fallen soldiers
- corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
- corpocracy — a corporate bureaucracy.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- corporeity — bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality
- corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.
- corylopsis — any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Corylopsis, which are found in eastern Asia and have yellow flowers
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- cozy up to — to try to ingratiate oneself, or make friends, with