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.