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12-letter words containing p, y

  • cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
  • cypress knee — one of the woody growths that project above water from the roots of the bald cypress.
  • cypress pine — any coniferous tree of the Australian genus Callitrus, having leaves in whorls and yielding valuable timber: family Cupressaceae
  • cypress vine — a tropical American convolvulaceous climbing plant, Ipomoea pennata, having finely divided compound leaves and scarlet or white tubular flowers
  • cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
  • dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
  • daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
  • day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
  • day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
  • debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
  • deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
  • deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
  • dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
  • delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
  • demonography — a treatise on demons.
  • depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
  • depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
  • depressingly — In a depressing manner.
  • depressively — In a depressive manner.
  • derived type — (programming)   A type constructed from primitive types or other derived types using a type constructor function. This term is usually applied to procedural languages such as C or Ada. C's derived types are the array, function, pointer, structure, and union. Compare derived class.
  • dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
  • despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
  • despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
  • despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
  • despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
  • despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
  • deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
  • deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
  • diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
  • dicarpellary — having two carpels
  • dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
  • diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
  • dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
  • dipsy-doodle — a quick dipping, sliding motion of the body, as made by ball carriers in football to evade tacklers.
  • dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
  • disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
  • dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
  • disperse dye — any of the class of slightly water-soluble dyes dispersed in aqueous solution for dyeing synthetic textile fibers.
  • dispiritedly — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
  • dispiteously — in a manner that lacks pity
  • display case — glass box, cabinet
  • display hack — (graphics)   A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
  • display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
  • display type — type larger than body type, used in headings, advertisements, etc.
  • displeasedly — in a displeased manner
  • disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
  • disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
  • ditriglyphic — of or pertaining to ditriglyphs
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