8-letter words containing y, p, e
- papyrine — paper-like; papyral
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
- paratype — a specimen other than a type specimen that is used for the original description of a taxonomic group and specifically stated to be the one on which the original description of the taxon was based.
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- passerby — a person passing by.
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- pay deal — a negotiation or agreement concerning pay or salary
- pay desk — the counter in a shop where customers pay for goods
- pay zone — A pay zone is a reservoir or part of a reservoir that contains hydrocarbons that can be extracted economically.
- payables — debts to be paid
- paycheck — a bank check given as salary or wages.
- paygrade — a level on a pay scale
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- peaberry — a single seed coffee berry; a round coffee bean
- peacocky — of or resembling a peacock; ostentatious
- pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- peccancy — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- peddlery — the business of a peddler.
- pedology — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelology — the study of the therapeutic uses of mud
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pendency — the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
- pennyboy — an employee whose duties include menial tasks, such as running errands
- pennyfee — a small payment, whether literally of the value of a penny or not
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- perchery — a barn in which hens are allowed to move without restriction
- perigyny — Botany. a perigynous condition.
- peripety — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- perseity — (in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.
- perspiry — sweaty
- petabyte — 2 50 bytes, or 1,024 terabytes.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- petitory — requesting or entreating
- peyotism — a religion of native American Indians that incorporates the ritual use of peyote
- peyotist — a person who follows the religion of peyotism
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phylesis — evolutionary events that modify an organism or group of organisms without leading to the formation of a new species
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- phyllite — a slaty rock, the cleavage planes of which have a luster imparted by minute scales of mica.
- phyllode — an expanded petiole resembling and having the function of a leaf, but without a true blade.
- phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- physique — physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.