9-letter words containing y, e, t
- operatory — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- optometry — the practice or profession of examining the eyes, by means of suitable instruments or appliances, for defects in vision and eye disorders in order to prescribe corrective lenses or other appropriate treatment.
- opulently — In an opulent manner.
- orthopedy — Archaic form of orthopedics.
- osmometry — measurement of osmotic pressure.
- ossietzky — Carl von [kahrl fuh n] /kɑrl fən/ (Show IPA), 1889–1938, German pacifist: Nobel Peace Prize 1935.
- ostectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- ostensory — monstrance.
- osteocyte — a cell of osseous tissue within the bone matrix; a bone cell.
- osteology — the branch of anatomy dealing with the skeleton.
- osteotomy — the dividing of a bone, or the excision of part of it.
- out-years — the fiscal year after a year covered by a budget; any year beyond the budget year for which projections of spending are made.
- outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
- outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
- outstayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outstay.
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- overlusty — too lusty
- overstory — the uppermost layer of foliage in a forest, forming the canopy.
- overstudy — excessive study.
- oxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- pachytene — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
- paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
- pageantry — spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- parhypate — a note in ancient Greek music, the second lowest note in the two lowest tetrachords
- parquetry — mosaic work of wood used for floors, wainscoting, etc.; marquetry.
- partygoer — a person who enjoys or frequently attends parties and celebrations.
- paternity — the state of being a father; fatherhood.
- pathogeny — the production and development of disease.
- patiently — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
- peer gynt — a play (1867) by Henrik Ibsen.
- 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
- penitency — the state of being penitent
- pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
- 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.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pentylene — any unsaturated hydrocarbon with formula C5H8
- pepticity — good digestion