6-letter words containing p, y
- poncey — If you say that someone or something is poncey, you mean you do not like them because they are too feminine or artistic.
- poogye — a Hindu nose-flute
- poorly — in a poor manner or way: The team played poorly.
- popery — the Roman Catholic Church, especially its doctrines, ceremonies, and system of government.
- popjoy — to amuse yourself
- popply — (of water) bubbly, rippling, or choppy
- portly — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- poshly — in a posh manner
- posybl — Programming system for distributed applications. A Linda implementation for Unix networks by Ioannis Schoinas <[email protected]>.
- potboy — (esp formerly) a youth or man employed at a public house to serve beer, etc
- pouchy — possessing or resembling a pouch: pouchy folds under the eyes.
- pouffy — a high headdress with the hair rolled in puffs, worn by women in the late 18th century.
- poyang — a lake in E China, in Kiangsi province. 90 miles (145 km) long.
- pranky — inclined to play pranks.
- prayer — a person who prays.
- prebuy — of or pertaining to the advance purchase of a product or service
- predry — to dry or become dry in advance
- prepay — to pay or arrange to pay beforehand or before due: to prepay the loan.
- preppy — a person who is a student at or a graduate of a preparatory school.
- pressy — A pressy is something that you give to someone, for example at Christmas, or when you visit them.
- pretry — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- pretty — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- preyed — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- preyer — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- pricey — expensive or unduly expensive: a pricey wine.
- pricky — prickly.
- primly — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- priory — a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.
- prissy — excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
- prolly — probably
- propyl — containing a propyl group.
- prossy — to exhibit pride or haughtiness; put on airs.
- prying — that pries; looking or searching curiously.
- prynne — William, 1600–69, English Puritan leader and pamphleteer.
- psych- — psycho-
- psyche — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psycho — a psychopathic or psychotic person.
- psylla — jumping plant louse.
- psyton — (humour) /si:'ton/ (From TMRC) The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more likely to fail when lots of people are watching. This term appears to have been largely superseded by bogon; see also quantum bogodynamics.
- psywar — psychological warfare.
- ptooey — an imitation of the sound of spitting
- ptyxis — the folding of each individual leaf in a bud
- puddly — having puddles
- pudsey — a town in N England, in Leeds unitary authority, West Yorkshire. Pop: 32 391 (2001)
- pulley — a wheel, with a grooved rim for carrying a line, that turns in a frame or block and serves to change the direction of or to transmit force, as when one end of the line is pulled to raise a weight at the other end: one of the simple machines.
- punchy — punch-drunk.
- punkey — a biting midge of the family Ceratopogonidae
- purely — entirely; completely.
- purfly — stout
- purify — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.