7-letter words containing p, y
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- presley — Elvis (Aron) 1935–77, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer.
- pretype — to foreshadow
- prey on — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- preyful — predatory
- preying — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- pricily — in a pricey manner
- prickly — full of or armed with prickles.
- primacy — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primely — excellently.
- priorly — preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous: A prior agreement prevents me from accepting this.
- pripyat — a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- privacy — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privily — in a privy manner; secretly.
- privity — private or secret knowledge.
- probity — integrity and uprightness; honesty.
- procyon — a first-magnitude star in the constellation Canis Minor.
- prodigy — a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability: a musical prodigy.
- progeny — a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
- propyla — plural of propylon.
- prosify — to write or make into prose (esp of a dull nature)
- prosody — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- protyle — a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were supposed to have been formed
- proudly — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- prudery — excessive propriety or modesty in speech, conduct, etc.
- pryderi — the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon who was stolen by Gwawl shortly after his birth and was restored to his parents a few years later.
- psyched — psych1 .
- psychic — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- psycho- — Psycho- is added to words in order to form other words which describe or refer to things connected with the mind or with mental processes.
- psykter — a wine jar with an ovoid body tapering at the neck, set on a high foot: used for cooling wine.
- psyllid — jumping plant louse.
- pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- ptolemy — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- ptyalin — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
- puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- puckery — puckered.
- pudency — modesty; bashfulness; shamefacedness.
- puffery — undue or exaggerated praise.
- pulpify — to reduce to pulp
- pursily — in a pursy manner
- pussley — purslane
- pussy's — Informal. a cat, especially a kitten.
- putrefy — to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.
- pyaemia — a diseased state in which pyogenic bacteria are circulating in the blood, characterized by the development of abscesses in various organs.
- pycnite — an off-white to yellow variety of topaz
- pycnium — a flask-shaped or conical sporangium of a rust fungus, which develops below the epidermis of the host and bears pycniospores.
- pye-dog — an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and other countries in east and south Asia.
- pygmoid — a pygmy