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7-letter words containing y, p, e

  • orphrey — an ornamental band or border, especially on an ecclesiastical vestment.
  • ospreys — Plural form of osprey.
  • outyelp — to outdo in yelping
  • overpay — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
  • overply — to ply too much
  • paceway — a racecourse for trotting and pacing
  • pageboy — a hair style in which the hair is rolled under, usually at shoulder-length.
  • paisley — a soft woolen fabric woven with a pattern of colorful and minutely detailed figures.
  • palfrey — a riding horse, as distinguished from a war horse.
  • paneity — the state of being bread, esp Eucharistic bread
  • parenty — a large, brown and yellow monitor lizard, Varanus giganteus, native to arid and semiarid regions of Australia.
  • parsley — an herb, Pertoselinum crispum, native to the Mediterranean, having either curled leaf clusters (French parsley) or flat compound leaves (Italian parsley) widely cultivated for use in garnishing or seasoning food. Compare parsley family.
  • partyer — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
  • passkey — master key.
  • patency — the state of being patent.
  • payable — to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
  • payment — something that is paid; an amount paid; compensation; recompense.
  • paysage — a landscape or representation of a landscape
  • payware — /pay'weir/ Commercial software. Opposite: shareware or freeware.
  • peabodyElizabeth Palmer, 1804–94, U.S. educator and reformer: founded the first kindergarten in the U.S.
  • peatary — an area covered with peat; peat bog
  • peccary — any of several piglike hoofed mammals of the genus Tayassu, of North and South America, as T. tajacu (collared peccary, or javelina) having a dark gray coat with a white collar.
  • pedlary — peddlery.
  • pedlery — peddlery.
  • penalty — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
  • peppery — full of or tasting like pepper; hot; pungent.
  • per day — relating to an allowance for daily expenses, usually those incurred while working
  • per say — a frequent misspelling of per se.
  • perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
  • perfumy — perfumed; scented; fragrant
  • perjury — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
  • peroxy- — indicating the presence of the peroxide group, -O–O-
  • pessary — a device worn in the vagina to support a displaced uterus.
  • pet day — a single fine day during a period of bad weather
  • petrary — a weapon used to propel stones
  • petrify — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
  • peytrel — the part of a horse's harness or the protective part that shields its chest
  • phenoxy — containing the monovalent radical C6H5O, derived from phenol
  • phlegmy — of, relating to, or characterized by phlegm.
  • phoresy — (among insects and arachnids) a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another.
  • phrensy — frenzy
  • phys ed — physical education.
  • phytane — a hydrocarbon found in some fossilized plant remains
  • phytate — a salt or ester of phytic acid, occurring in plants, especially cereal grains, capable of forming insoluble complexes with calcium, zinc, iron, and other nutrients and interfering with their absorption by the body.
  • pickery — petty theft
  • pickney — a child
  • piggery — a pigsty or pig breeder's establishment.
  • pigsney — a darling.
  • pilfery — theft
  • pinkeye — a contagious, epidemic form of acute conjunctivitis occurring in humans and certain animals: so called from the color of the inflamed eye.
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