9-letter words containing p, y
- capillary — Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.
- capitally — in an excellent manner; admirably
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
- captaincy — The captaincy of a team is the position of being captain.
- captainry — captainship
- captively — In a captive manner.
- captivity — Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpingly — In a carping manner.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- catalepsy — a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- cataphyll — a simplified form of plant leaf, such as a scale leaf or cotyledon
- cataplexy — sudden temporary paralysis, brought on by severe shock
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- clay pipe — a pipe whose bowl is made of fired clay
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- collotypy — the process of collotype
- colophony — rosin
- coloscopy — colonoscopy.
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
- compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- complexly — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- complying — Present participle of comply.
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copiously — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- copolymer — a chemical compound of high molecular weight formed by uniting the molecules of two or more different compounds (monomers)
- coprology — preoccupation with excrement
- copy desk — a desk where copy is edited
- copy down — If you copy down something that someone has said or written, you write it down exactly.