9-letter words containing y, g, p
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses
- pay grade — the grade of a member of the armed services established according to a scale of increasing amounts of base pay and related to but not identical with official rank.
- paysagist — a painter of landscapes
- peer gynt — a play (1867) by Henrik Ibsen.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pestology — the analysis and research of pests and how to get rid of them
- petrology — study of rocks
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- 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.
- philogyny — love of or liking for women.
- philology — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phytology — botany.
- pig's fry — the heart, liver, lights, and sweetbreads of a pig cooked, esp fried, together
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- pistology — the branch of theology dealing with faith.
- pityingly — full of or expressing pity: a pitying look.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- plug away — keep working on sth
- plug-ugly — a ruffian; rowdy; tough.
- plutology — the study of wealth
- poenology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- poignancy — the state or condition of being poignant.
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- polygamic — polygamous.
- polygenes — multiple factors
- polygenic — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- polygonal — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polygonum — any polygonaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, having stems with knotlike joints and spikes of small white, green, or pink flowers
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- prayingly — with prayer, prayerfully
- pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- probingly — with a probing approach
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prong key — a key or spanner with two prongs or projections which engage corresponding holes in the face of a nut or component to be turned for tightening, adjustment, etc
- psychogas — a gas with a mind-altering effect
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- pterygoid — wing-shaped
- pterygote — belonging or pertaining to the arthropod subclass Pterygota, comprising the winged insects.