7-letter words containing t, y, p
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- postboy — (formerly) a boy or man who rode post or carried mail.
- potency — the state or quality of being potent.
- pothery — humid; stuffy
- pottery — ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware.
- poultry — domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.
- poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
- pravity — depravity, moral degeneracy, perversion
- pretype — to foreshadow
- pripyat — a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- privity — private or secret knowledge.
- probity — integrity and uprightness; honesty.
- protyle — a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were supposed to have been formed
- psykter — a wine jar with an ovoid body tapering at the neck, set on a high foot: used for cooling wine.
- pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- ptolemy — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- ptyalin — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
- puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- putrefy — to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.
- pycnite — an off-white to yellow variety of topaz
- pyretic — of, pertaining to, affected by, or producing fever.
- pyrites — pyrite.
- pyritic — a very common brass-yellow mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , with a metallic luster, burned to sulfur dioxide in the manufacture of sulfuric acid: chemically similar to marcasite, but crystallizing in the isometric system.
- pytheas — 4th century bc, Greek navigator. He was the first Greek to visit and describe the coasts of Spain, France, and the British Isles and may have reached Iceland
- pythiad — the four-year period between two celebrations of the Pythian Games.
- pythian — Also, Pythic. of or relating to Delphi, in ancient Greece.
- pythias — the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracles.
- pythium — a genus of parasitic oomycotes, most of which are plant parasites
- pythons — a large dragon who guarded the chasm at Delphi from which prophetic vapors emerged. He was finally killed by Apollo, who established his oracle on the site.
- satrapy — the province or jurisdiction of a satrap.
- spirity — spirited
- spy out — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- stay up — not go to bed
- steeply — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
- stepney — a former borough of Greater London, England, now part of Tower Hamlets.
- stop by — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stop-by — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- strappy — A strappy dress or top has thin shoulder straps.
- stroppy — bad-tempered or hostile; quick to take offense.
- stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stylops — any insect of the order Strepsiptera, including the genus Stylops, living as a parasite in other insects, esp bees and wasps: the females remain in the body of the host but the males move between hosts
- stypsis — the employment or application of styptics.
- styptic — serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
- subtype — a subordinate type.
- symptom — any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
- synapte — a litany.
- syntype — a type specimen other than the holotype used in the description of a species.
- tapstry — a tap-room in a public house
- tepidly — moderately warm; lukewarm: tepid water.
- therapy — the treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitating, or curative process: speech therapy.