9-letter words containing y, e, l, p
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- key plate — (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered.
- laypeople — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leap year — (in the Gregorian calendar) a year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400.
- lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
- leprosery — a hospital for leprosy sufferers
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- line copy — a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone (def 1).
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- logotypes — Plural form of logotype.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- may apple — an American plant, Podophyllum peltatum, of the barberry family, bearing an edible, yellowish, egg-shaped fruit.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- medalplay — (in golf) scoring system in which the score is based on the total number of strokes taken
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nephology — The study or contemplation of clouds.
- nonplayer — a person that is not playing
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
- oedipally — in an oedipal manner
- oenophily — a liking for or expert knowledge of wine
- operantly — In an operant manner.
- operosely — In an operose manner.
- opulently — In an opulent manner.
- outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
- overapply — To apply to excess.
- paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- paleology — the study of antiquities.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- paralysed — unable to move and with no feeling
- paralyses — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.