9-letter words containing y, p, e
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- paternity — the state of being a father; fatherhood.
- pathogeny — the production and development of disease.
- patiently — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- pay cable — cable television.
- pay grade — the grade of a member of the armed services established according to a scale of increasing amounts of base pay and related to but not identical with official rank.
- pay offer — an offer of a certain amount of wages or salary
- pay phone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- pay raise — an increase in wages or salary
- pay scale — salary range
- paycheque — a payment for work done
- payloader — a heavy, wheeled vehicle with a large, movable blade or scoop at the front.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- payrolled — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
- payroller — a wage earner, especially a government employee.
- peaceably — inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition.
- peak year — a year when something reaches its point of greatest development, strength, etc
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
- peer gynt — a play (1867) by Henrik Ibsen.
- pelecypod — any mollusk of the class Pelecypoda (Lamellibranchiata), characterized by a bivalve shell enclosing the headless body and lamellate gills, comprising the oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops.
- pelletify — to shape into pellets
- pellitory — any of various urticaceous plants of the S and W European genus Parietaria, esp P. diffusa (pellitory-of-the-wall or wall pellitory), that grow in crevices and have long narrow leaves and small pink flowers
- pendantly — in the shape or manner of a pendant
- penitency — the state of being penitent
- pennyland — in Caithness and the Orkney and Shetland islands a piece of land on which one penny's worth of tax was owed to the overlord
- pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
- pensively — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pentapody — a measure consisting of five feet.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pentylene — any unsaturated hydrocarbon with formula C5H8
- pep rally — a meeting, especially of students before an interscholastic athletic contest, to stimulate group enthusiasm by rousing talks, songs, cheers, etc.
- pepticity — good digestion
- perfectly — in a perfect manner or to a perfect degree: to sing an aria perfectly.
- perfumery — perfumes collectively.
- pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
- perikarya — parts of nerve cells that contain the nuclei
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- perimetry — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- periphery — the external boundary of any surface or area.
- periptery — a peripteral building.
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
- perorally — through or via the mouth
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pestology — the analysis and research of pests and how to get rid of them
- petrology — study of rocks
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.