9-letter words containing y, p, e
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leap year — (in the Gregorian calendar) a year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400.
- lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
- leprosery — a hospital for leprosy sufferers
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- line copy — a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone (def 1).
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- logotypes — Plural form of logotype.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- m-payment — a point-of-sale payment made through a wireless device such as a mobile phone or PDA
- manyplies — Omasum.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- may apple — an American plant, Podophyllum peltatum, of the barberry family, bearing an edible, yellowish, egg-shaped fruit.
- mayhappen — perhaps; mayhap.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- medalplay — (in golf) scoring system in which the score is based on the total number of strokes taken
- megapenny — /meg'*-pen"ee/ $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- mime type — (file format, protocol, multimedia) The unique identifier used for different file types when conveyed across a MIME-based protocol such as MIME e-mail or HTTP. Registration of MIME types is explained in RFC 2048.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- monkey up — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. Compare hack up, kluge up.
- monkeypod — a tropical American tree, Samanea saman, of the legume family, having spreading branches and dense heads of small, pink flowers.
- monkeypot — the woody, operculate seed vessel of any of certain large South American trees of the genus Lecythis.
- monkeypox — A viral disease of African origin, related to smallpox and transmitted to humans through fluid exchange by rodents and primates.
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- mysophobe — A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
- mythopoet — a writer of mythic verse
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- neophytes — Plural form of neophyte.
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nephology — The study or contemplation of clouds.
- new penny — penny (def 2).
- ninepenny — noting a nail 2.75 inches (7 cm) long. Symbol: 9d.
- nonplayer — a person that is not playing
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia