10-letter words containing y, n
- ponca city — a city in N Oklahoma.
- ponerology — a theory of evil
- pontypridd — an industrial town in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 29 781 (2001)
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- pornocracy — government or domination of government by whores
- portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- praisingly — in a praising manner; with praise
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- prebendary — a canon or member of the clergy who is entitled to a prebend for special services at a cathedral or collegiate church.
- precedency — precedence.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- prenatally — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- prepayment — paying for sth in advance
- prepensely — in a premeditated way
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- prevenancy — courtesy
- primarying — the mounting of a challenge to the incumbent in a primary election: There were many instances of primarying during the last election cycle.
- princessly — resembling a princess
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- prominency — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- promontory — a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- propensely — with propensity
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protonymph — the newly hatched form of various mites
- prowlingly — in the manner of a prowl
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psychogony — the development or origin of the soul or mind
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- punctually — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- punitively — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- purblindly — in a purblind manner
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- push money — a cash inducement provided by a manufacturer or distributor for a retailer or his staff, to reward successful selling
- puy lentil — a greyish-green variety of lentil that retains its shape after cooking
- puzzlingly — in a puzzling manner
- pycnocline — a layer, zone, or gradient of changing density, esp. a thin layer of ocean water with a density that increases rapidly with depth