9-letter words containing y, p, e
- respecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- rip entry — an entry into the water with little splashing.
- role play — playacting, simulation
- role-play — to assume the attitudes, actions, and discourse of (another), especially in a make-believe situation in an effort to understand a differing point of view or social interaction: Management trainees were given a chance to role-play labor negotiators.
- rope yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
- sea poppy — horn poppy.
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
- septenary — of or relating to the number seven or forming a group of seven.
- septicity — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- serpentry — the collective body of serpents; serpents as a whole
- sex-typed — characterized as appropriate for or of one sex rather than the other
- sisyphean — of or relating to Sisyphus.
- snipe fly — any of various predatory dipterous flies of the family Leptidae (or Rhagionidae), such as Rhagio scolopacea of Europe, having an elongated body and long legs
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- speakeasy — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
- specially — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- speechify — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
- speechway — a pattern, style, or feature of spoken language shared by the people of a particular group or area.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogeny — the process of spore formation in plants and animals
- spy plane — an aircraft used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from a high altitude
- spymaster — an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.
- stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- subdeputy — an assistant to a deputy
- superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.
- superbity — pride
- supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
- superhype — exaggerated hype
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- supremely — highest in rank or authority; paramount; sovereign; chief.
- syllepsis — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sylphlike — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- synalepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- synaptase — a compound present in almonds and other oily seeds
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- synopsize — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
- syphilize — to inoculate with the syphilis virus as a means of curing or preventing the disease