9-letter words containing y, e, l, p
- epicycles — Plural form of epicycle.
- epicyclic — Of, or relating to epicycles.
- epochally — In an epochal manner.
- equal pay — the right of a man or woman to receive the same pay as a person of the opposite sex doing the same or similar work for the same or a similar employer
- esemplasy — unification
- eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- eutrapely — conversational skill
- examplary — Obsolete form of exemplary.
- exemplary — Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.
- exemplify — Be a typical example of.
- expletory — Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous.
- exposedly — In an exposed way.
- expressly — Explicitly; clearly.
- fell pony — a British breed of large and heavy ponies, found in the hills of N England
- file type — (file format) The kind of data stored in a file. Most modern operating systems use the filename extension to determine the file type though others store this information elsewhere in the file system. The file type is used to choose an appropriate icon to represent the file in a GUI and the correct application with which to view, edit, run, or print the file. Different operating systems support different sets of file types though most agree on a large common set and allow arbitrary new types to be defined. See also MIME.
- fly press — a hand-operated press in which a horizontal beam with heavy steel balls attached to the ends gives additional momentum to the descending member used to punch or compress material
- flypapers — Plural form of flypaper.
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- flyspecks — Plural form of flyspeck.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- 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.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- 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.
- 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.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- impliedly — involved, indicated, or suggested without being directly or explicitly stated; tacitly understood: an implied rebuke; an implied compliment.
- in plenty — If there are things in plenty, those things exist or happen in large amounts or numbers.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.