8-letter words containing p, y
- pendency — the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
- pennyboy — an employee whose duties include menial tasks, such as running errands
- pennyfee — a small payment, whether literally of the value of a penny or not
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- perchery — a barn in which hens are allowed to move without restriction
- perigyny — Botany. a perigynous condition.
- peripety — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- perseity — (in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.
- perspiry — sweaty
- petabyte — 2 50 bytes, or 1,024 terabytes.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- petitory — requesting or entreating
- peyotism — a religion of native American Indians that incorporates the ritual use of peyote
- peyotist — a person who follows the religion of peyotism
- phantasy — fantasy.
- pharmacy — Also called pharmaceutics. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines.
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- phylarch — the chief of a tribe in Ancient Greece, and in Athens, the head of a clan in battle, or generally, the chief of a tribe
- phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection
- phylesis — evolutionary events that modify an organism or group of organisms without leading to the formation of a new species
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- phyllary — one of the bracts forming the involucre or the head or inflorescence of a composite plant.
- phyllite — a slaty rock, the cleavage planes of which have a luster imparted by minute scales of mica.
- phyllode — an expanded petiole resembling and having the function of a leaf, but without a true blade.
- phyllody — the abnormal transformation of a floral structure into a foliage leaf.
- phylloid — leaflike.
- phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
- physalia — a marine invertebrate, often confused with a jellyfish, that has a painful sting
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- physico- — physical, physical and
- physiol. — physiological
- physique — physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- phytosis — a disease which is caused by a vegetable parasite, for example a fungus
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- picnicky — of or relating to picnic
- pie-eyed — drunk; intoxicated.
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- pin-eyed — (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma in the mouth of the corolla, on the end of a long style with the stamens lower in the tube
- pinckney — Charles, 1757–1824, American Revolutionary leader and politician: senator 1798–1801.
- pinguefy — to make or become greasy or fat
- pink-eye — a contagious, epidemic form of acute conjunctivitis occurring in humans and certain animals: so called from the color of the inflamed eye.
- pipeclay — a fine, white clay used for making tobacco pipes, whitening parts of military or other dress, etc.
- pipingly — in a shrill manner
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.