9-letter words containing p, y
- gossypose — raffinose.
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- gray pine — jack pine.
- gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
- gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- gyp joint — any business establishment that charges excessively for poor-quality service or goods.
- gypsy cab — a taxicab that is licensed only to pick up passengers on call by telephone, but that often illegally seeks passengers on the street.
- gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
- gypsyweed — Speedwell, Veronica officinalis.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- gyropilot — automatic pilot.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- hairspray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- halophily — the ability or predisposition to thrive in an extremely salty environment
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- hand-play — the practice of fighting with fists
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- haplology — the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word, as in substituting morphonemic for morphophonemic or in the pronunciation [prob-lee] /ˈprɒb li/ (Show IPA) for probably.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- happen by — chance upon
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- helpfully — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hinkypunk — (West Country) a will o' the wisp.
- hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses
- hippology — the study of horses.
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- homophily — The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind.
- homophony — the quality or state of being homophonic.
- homophyly — a resemblance due to common ancestry.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.