10-letter words containing y, n
- penny post — (formerly) any of various postal systems delivering mail for a penny a letter.
- penny-ante — involving a trifling sum of money; small in amount: a penny-ante investment.
- penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- pennycress — any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
- pennyroyal — an aromatic Old World plant, Mentha pulegium, of the mint family, having clusters of small purple flowers and yielding a pungent essential oil used medicinally and as an insect repellent.
- pennyworth — as much as may be bought for a penny.
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perikaryon — cell body.
- periphyton — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- permanency — permanence.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- personably — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- personally — through direct contact; in person; directly: I will thank him personally.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- petrifying — stunning or dazing with horror, fear, etc
- petromoney — the money that is regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- pharyngeal — of, relating to, or situated near the pharynx.
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phenotypes — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phoney war — A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting.
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- photonasty — a nastic movement in response to a change in light intensity
- photophony — the practice of using a photophone
- phrenology — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- phycobilin — any of a class of red or blue-green pigments found in the red algae and cyanobacteria
- phycobiont — the algae component of a lichen.
- phylogenic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- phytogenic — of plant origin.
- phytotoxin — any toxin, as ricin or crotin, produced by a plant.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piccaninny — pickaninny.
- pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
- piercingly — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- piggy bank — a small bank, having the shape of a pig, provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- pikeblenny — any of several tropical American clinid fishes of the genus Chaenopsis, as C. ocellata (bluethroat pikeblenny) the male of which is noted for its aggressive behavior in defending its territory.
- pillorying — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- pin cherry — any of several species of cherry, especially Prunus padus (European bird cherry) of Europe and Asia, and P. pensylvanica (pin cherry) of the U.S.
- pinchingly — in a mean or pinching way
- pinchpenny — a miser or niggard.
- pineal eye — an eyelike structure that develops from the pineal apparatus in certain cold-blooded vertebrates.
- pink floyd — British rock group, formed in 1966: originally comprised Syd Barrett (1946–2006), Roger Waters (born 1944), Rick Wright (1945–2008), and Nick Mason (born 1945); Barrett was replaced by Dave Gilmour (born 1944) in 1968 and Waters left in 1986. Recordings include The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Wall (1979)