8-letter words containing p, y
- prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
- provably — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- pryingly — in a prying manner
- prypyat' — Pripet.
- przemysl — a city in SE Poland: occupied by the Russians 1915.
- psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pseudery — pretentious talk
- psych up — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psyching — psych1 .
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- psychist — a person who believes in psychic phenomena
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- psychol. — psychological
- psychro- — cold
- psyllids — jumping plant louse.
- psyllium — fleawort.
- pterylae — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- ptyalize — to induce the flow of saliva
- publicly — by the state
- pudicity — modesty; chastity
- pulingly — in a complaining manner
- pulpally — involving the pulp of a tooth
- pulpitry — the art of delivering sermons
- punditry — the opinions or methods of pundits.
- pungency — sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
- puppetry — the art of making puppets or presenting puppet shows.
- puppydom — the state of being a puppy
- puppyish — a young dog, especially one less than a year old.
- puppyism — impudence
- purparty — a share of an estate held by coparceners that is apportioned to one upon the division of the estate among them.
- purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
- puseyism — Tractarianism.
- pussycat — a cat; pussy.
- put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- putumayo — a river in NW South America, flowing SE from S Colombia into the Amazon in NW Brazil. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- puyallup — a member of a Salishan-speaking North American Indian tribe living in the Puget Sound area of Washington.
- pycnidia — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- pycnosis — the reduction in size and increase in staining of a cell or its nucleus, usually a feature of cell degeneration
- pycnotic — relating to a theory which holds that matter formation occurred as a result of ether condensation
- pyelitis — inflammation of the pelvis or outlet of the kidney.
- pygidium — any of various structures or regions at the caudal end of the body in certain invertebrates.
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- pygmyish — resembling a pygmy
- pygmyism — the state of being a pygmy
- pyinkado — a leguminous tree, Xylia xylocarpa (or dolabriformis), native to India and Myanmar
- pyknosis — a process of thickening, esp. in the shrinking nucleus of a degenerating cell
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- pyogenic — producing or generating pus.