9-letter words containing y, e, l, p
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
- parleyvoo — to speak French
- parlyaree — Polari.
- parsleyed — cooked with or sprinkled with parsley
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- patiently — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- pay cable — cable television.
- pay scale — salary range
- payloader — a heavy, wheeled vehicle with a large, movable blade or scoop at the front.
- payrolled — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
- payroller — a wage earner, especially a government employee.
- peaceably — inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition.
- pelecypod — any mollusk of the class Pelecypoda (Lamellibranchiata), characterized by a bivalve shell enclosing the headless body and lamellate gills, comprising the oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops.
- pelletify — to shape into pellets
- pellitory — any of various urticaceous plants of the S and W European genus Parietaria, esp P. diffusa (pellitory-of-the-wall or wall pellitory), that grow in crevices and have long narrow leaves and small pink flowers
- pendantly — in the shape or manner of a pendant
- pennyland — in Caithness and the Orkney and Shetland islands a piece of land on which one penny's worth of tax was owed to the overlord
- pensively — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pentylene — any unsaturated hydrocarbon with formula C5H8
- pep rally — a meeting, especially of students before an interscholastic athletic contest, to stimulate group enthusiasm by rousing talks, songs, cheers, etc.
- perfectly — in a perfect manner or to a perfect degree: to sing an aria perfectly.
- pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
- perorally — through or via the mouth
- pestology — the analysis and research of pests and how to get rid of them
- petrology — study of rocks
- phenology — the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
- phenylene — containing a phenylene group.
- philately — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
- photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
- photolyze — to break down molecules with light.
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- pipe clay — a white, plastic clay used for making clay tobacco pipes or pottery, for whitening leather, etc.
- pipe-clay — to whiten with pipe clay.
- planetary — of, relating to, or resembling a planet or the planets.
- play date — an appointment made by several parents to have their young children play together.
- play hell — To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion. In British English, you can also say that one person or thing plays merry hell with another.
- play safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
- playhouse — a theater.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.