11-letter words containing p, y
- desperately — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- despisingly — in a despising manner; contemptuously
- despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
- diaphaneity — the quality of being diaphanous; transparency.
- diapophyses — Plural form of diapophysis.
- diapophysis — the upper or articular surface of a transverse vertebral process
- diisopropyl — Having two isopropyl groups.
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- diphysitism — the belief that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- dirty power — Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, drop-outs, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively known as power hits).
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discrepancy — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- disemployed — Simple past tense and past participle of disemploy.
- diskography — discography.
- disparately — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- dispensably — in a dispensable manner
- dispersedly — In a dispersed manner; in a scattered way, here and there.
- displayable — Capable of being displayed.
- disposingly — in a way that disposes
- disproperty — to deprive of property
- dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
- dizzy spell — attack of vertigo
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- downpayment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- downplaying — Present participle of downplay.
- drapability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
- dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
- duck typing — (programming) A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dumpy level — an instrument consisting of a spirit level mounted under and parallel to a telescope, the latter being rigidly attached to its supports.
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- dyspathetic — characterized by dyspathy
- dyspeptical — (archaic) dyspeptic.
- dysphemisms — Plural form of dysphemism.
- dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
- easy as pie — a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie.
- ectopically — In an ectopic manner.
- edaphically — In terms of soil conditions.
- electrotype — Make a copy of (something) by the electrolytic deposition of copper on a mold.
- electrotypy — the process of producing electrotype plates by electrolytically depositing a layer of copper or nickel onto a mould of the original
- ellipticity — The condition of being elliptic.
- embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
- embryophyte — any of a subkingdom of plants, Embryophyta, that encompasses most land plants, such as trees, flowers and mosses
- emery paper — also sandpaper
- emphyteusis — a continual right in a property that belongs to another
- emphyteutic — pertaining to emphyteusis
- empirically — Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.