5-letter words containing p, y
- phys. — physical
- piccy — a picture or photograph
- picky — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
- piety — reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations: a prayer full of piety.
- piggy — a small or young pig.
- pigmy — Anthropology. a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
- pikey — a gypsy or vagrant
- piney — abounding in or covered with pine trees: piny hillsides.
- pinky — pink3 .
- pinny — pinafore: apron
- pippy — (of fruit) containing many pips
- pisay — pisé.
- pisky — a Cornish fairy, thought to bring good luck despite being mischievous
- pissy — soiled with or reeking of urine.
- pithy — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- platy — (of an igneous rock) split into thin, flat sheets, often resembling strata, as a result of uneven cooling.
- playa — Western U.S. the sandy, salty, or mud-caked flat floor of a desert basin having interior drainage, usually occupied by a shallow lake during or after prolonged, heavy rains.
- plays — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pliny — ("the Elder"; Gaius Plinius Secundus) a.d. 23–79, Roman naturalist, encyclopedist, and writer.
- ploys — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- plumy — having plumes or feathers.
- plyer — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- poboy — poor boy.
- pocky — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or covered with pocks.
- poddy — a newborn or unweaned calf, especially one that is taken from its mother and hand-fed.
- podgy — pudgy.
- poesy — the work or the art of poetic composition.
- pogey — Slang.. Also, pogy. a package of food, candy, or other treats sent to a child at boarding school, a person in an institution, etc. candy or a treat.
- pokey — a jail
- poley — (of cattle) hornless or polled
- polly — a tame parrot.
- poly- — Poly- is used to form adjectives and nouns which indicate that many things or types of something are involved in something. For example, a polysyllabic word contains many syllables.
- polyp — Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- pommy — a British person, especially one who is a recent immigrant.
- ponty — a rod used for shaping molten glass
- poppy — any plant of the genus Papaver, having showy, usually red flowers. Compare poppy family.
- popsy — a girl or young woman.
- porgy — a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
- porky — of, relating to, or resembling pork.
- porny — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- porty — resembling port; affected by port
- posey — characteristic of or being a poser, especially in being trendy or fashionable in a superficial way.
- possy — possie.
- potsy — hopscotch.
- potty — Chiefly British Informal. slightly insane; eccentric.
- poufy — a high headdress with the hair rolled in puffs, worn by women in the late 18th century.
- pouty — inclined to pout, or marked by pouting: a sullen, pouty child; a pouty face.
- poway — a city in SW California.
- powys — John Cowper, 1872–1963, English author.
- poyou — an armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus, native to South America and characterized by its six moveable bands