9-letter words containing y, a, p, o, n
- parodying — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- pathogeny — the production and development of disease.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- pay phone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pentapody — a measure consisting of five feet.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- phycocyan — a type of blue pigment or protein which is found in some algae
- pinon jay — pinyon jay.
- play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play upon — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- pododynia — pain in the sole of the foot.
- poignancy — the state or condition of being poignant.
- pollyanna — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
- polyandry — the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. Compare monandry (def 1).
- polyantha — a type of clustering flower
- polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
- polygonal — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- polypnoea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polytonal — marked by or using polytonality.
- polyzonal — having many zones
- pony pack — a tray of usually one dozen growing plants that can be bought from a nursery for transplanting: a pony pack of tomato plants.
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prokaryon — the nucleus of a prokaryote
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pygmalion — Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.
- pyongyang — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
- pyramidon — a pedal organ stop made of wooden pipes in the shape of an inverted pyramid
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyromania — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- rope yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- taphonomy — the circumstances and processes of fossilization.
- theophany — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- typhonian — of or relating to Typhon
- typomania — an obsession with typology
- way point — a place or point between major points on a route.
- waypoints — Plural form of waypoint.