7-letter words containing p, y
- copyist — A copyist copies other people's music or paintings or, in the past, made written copies of documents.
- cosplay — a recreational activity in which people interact with one another while dressed as fictional characters
- cosy up — to seek to become intimate or to ingratiate oneself (with someone)
- cozy up — snugly warm and comfortable: a cozy little house.
- crisply — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- crumply — easily crumpled
- cryppie — (job, cryptography) /krip'ee/ A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements software or hardware for cryptography.
- crypsis — (biology) The ability of an organism to avoid observation.
- cryptic — A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand.
- cryptid — (cryptozoology) Any creature that may or may not exist. Sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.
- crypto- — Crypto- is added to adjectives and nouns to form other adjectives and nouns which refer to people who have hidden beliefs and principles.
- crypton — a hypothetical particle important in string theory and explanations of dark matter
- cryptos — Plural form of crypto.
- cy pres — the doctrine that the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as closely as practicable when literal compliance is impossible
- cyclops — one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of the forehead, encountered by Odysseus in the Odyssey
- cynipid — (zoology) Any member of the Cynipidae.
- cyperus — Any sedge of genus Cyperus.
- cyphers — Plural form of cypher.
- cypress — A cypress or a cypress tree is a type of conifer.
- cyprian — of or relating to Cyprus
- cyprine — a type of silicate mineral
- cypriot — Cypriot means belonging or relating to Cyprus, or to its people or culture.
- cypsela — the dry one-seeded fruit of the daisy and related plants, which resembles an achene but is surrounded by a calyx sheath
- dasypod — an animal of the genus Dasypus, a type of armadillo
- daypack — a small rucksack
- decrypt — to decode (a message) with or without previous knowledge of its key
- dempsey — Jack. real name William Harrison Dempsey. 1895–1983, US boxer; world heavyweight champion (1919–26)
- deploys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deploy.
- desysop — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To remove sysop privileges from.
- diglyph — (in a Doric frieze) a type of ornament consisting of two vertical grooves carved into the stone
- diptych — a hinged two-leaved tablet used in ancient times for writing on with a stylus.
- display — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- doctype — (computing) A directive that associates an SGML or XML document (such as a webpage) with a Document Type Definition, potentially affecting how it is parsed and rendered.
- drapery — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- drop by — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop-by — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropfly — (in angling) an artificial fly usually used as an extra fly
- dry mop — dust mop.
- duopoly — the market condition that exists when there are only two sellers. Compare monopoly (def 1), oligopoly.
- duotype — two halftone plates made from a monochrome original but etched differently to create two values of intensity when superimposed in printing.
- dylperl — A dynamic linking package for Perl by Roberto Salama <[email protected]>. Dynamically loaded functions are accessed as if they were user-defined functions. This code is based on Oliver Sharp's May 1993 article in Dr. Dobbs Journal ("Dynamic Linking under Berkeley Unix"). Posted to news:comp.lang.perl on 1993-08-11.
- dyspnea — difficult or labored breathing.
- ecotype — a subspecies or race that is especially adapted to a particular set of environmental conditions.
- ectropy — (thermodynamics) The overall increase in the organization of a system.
- ectypal — a reproduction; copy (opposed to prototype).
- empathy — The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- employe — Alternative spelling of employee.
- employs — Give work to (someone) and pay them for it.
- emptily — In an empty manner.
- empyema — The collection of pus in a cavity in the body, especially in the pleural cavity.