8-letter words containing p, y
- supinely — lying on the back, face or front upward.
- supplely — supply2 .
- sympathy — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympatry — the occurrence of sympatric organisms
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- symphony — Music. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. an instrumental passage occurring in a vocal composition, or between vocal movements in a composition. an instrumental piece, often in several movements, forming the overture to an opera or the like.
- symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
- symploce — the simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
- synapses — a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.
- synapsid — a fossil reptile (of the subclass Synapsida) that exhibits some mammal-like characteristics of the skull
- synapsis — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- syncopic — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- syngraph — a document signed by all parties
- synopses — a brief or condensed statement giving a general view of some subject.
- synopsis — a brief or condensed statement giving a general view of some subject.
- synoptic — pertaining to or constituting a synopsis; affording or taking a general view of the principal parts of a subject.
- synthpop — popular music played with synthesizers and having light upbeat melodies and lyrics.
- syphilis — a chronic infectious disease, caused by a spirochete, Treponema pallidum, usually venereal in origin but often congenital, and affecting almost any organ or tissue in the body, especially the genitals, skin, mucous membranes, aorta, brain, liver, bones, and nerves.
- syphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- taxpayer — a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
- telecopy — a message or document sent by fax
- teleplay — a play written or adapted for broadcast on television.
- teletype — (lowercase) a network of teletypewriters with their connecting lines, switchboards, etc.
- tenpenny — noting a nail 3 inches (7.6 cm) in length. Symbol: 10d.
- tepidity — moderately warm; lukewarm: tepid water.
- the poky — prison
- the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- tidytips — (used with a singular or plural verb) a composite plant, Layia platyglossa, of California, having flower heads with bright yellow, white-tipped rays.
- top copy — (in a duplicated document) the sheet on which something is actually typed or written
- toplofty — condescending; haughty.
- topology — the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching.
- toponymy — the study of toponyms.
- topotype — a specimen from the locality at which the type was first collected.
- torpidly — inactive or sluggish.
- triglyph — a structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutive metopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with two vertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flat vertical bands on the face of the block.
- trippery — like a tripper
- triptych — Fine Arts. a set of three panels or compartments side by side, bearing pictures, carvings, or the like.
- trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
- truetype — (text, standard) An outline font standard first developed by Apple Computer, and later embraced by Microsoft, as a competitor to Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript which is still more popular.
- trumpery — something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
- tuppenny — twopenny (defs 1–3).
- twopenny — of the amount or value of twopence.
- tympanal — pertaining to the middle ear or tympanic membrane.
- tympanic — pertaining or belonging to a tympanum.
- tympanum — Anatomy, Zoology. middle ear. tympanic membrane.