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9-letter words containing t, y, p, e

  • ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.
  • pointedly — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • polyester — Chemistry. a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the group –COO–, usually formed by polymerizing a polyhydric alcohol with a polybasic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, plastics, and textile fibers.
  • polyether — a polymeric ether.
  • polystyle — having many columns.
  • polythene — polyethylene.
  • polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
  • portrayed — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
  • portrayer — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
  • posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
  • pot belly — Someone who has a pot belly has a round, fat stomach which sticks out, either because they eat or drink too much, or because they have had very little to eat for some time.
  • pot-belly — a distended or protuberant belly.
  • pothecary — apothecary.
  • precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
  • precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
  • predacity — predatory; rapacious.
  • predatory — Zoology. preying upon other organisms for food.
  • prefatory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
  • prenotify — to notify in advance
  • presbyter — (in the early Christian church) an office bearer who exercised teaching, priestly, and administrative functions.
  • presbytic — affected by presbyopia
  • presently — in a little while; soon: They will be here presently.
  • prettyish — quite pretty
  • prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
  • pretypify — to foreshadow or prefigure the type of: The father's personality pretypified his son's.
  • priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
  • privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • procerity — tallness
  • proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
  • propriety — conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners.
  • propylite — a hydrothermally altered andesite or allied rock containing secondary minerals, as calcite, chlorite, serpentine, or epidote.
  • proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
  • prototype — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
  • proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
  • prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
  • prudently — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
  • prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
  • pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
  • pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
  • pterygoid — wing-shaped
  • pterygote — belonging or pertaining to the arthropod subclass Pterygota, comprising the winged insects.
  • ptolemy i — (surnamed Soter) 367?–280 b.c, ruler of Egypt 323–285: founder of Macedonian dynasty in Egypt.
  • puerility — the state or quality of being a child.
  • pussytoes — any of various woolly plants of the genus Antennaria
  • puttyless — having no putty
  • puttylike — resembling or characteristic of putty
  • pygostyle — the bone at the posterior end of the spinal column in birds, formed by the fusion of several caudal vertebrae.
  • pyoureter — distention of a ureter with pus.
  • pyreneite — a garnet, of greyish-black colour, usually identified as a variety of andradite
  • pyrethrin — Also called pyrethrin I. a viscous, water-insoluble liquid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 3 , extracted from pyrethrum flowers, used as an insecticide.
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