7-letter words containing y, r
- psykter — a wine jar with an ovoid body tapering at the neck, set on a high foot: used for cooling wine.
- pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- puckery — puckered.
- puffery — undue or exaggerated praise.
- pursily — in a pursy manner
- putrefy — to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.
- pyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pylorus — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pyralid — any of numerous slender-bodied moths of the family Pyralidae, having elongated triangular forewings, and in the larval phase including many crop pests.
- pyramid — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- pyretic — of, pertaining to, affected by, or producing fever.
- pyrexia — fever.
- pyridic — relating to pyridine
- pyrites — pyrite.
- pyritic — a very common brass-yellow mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , with a metallic luster, burned to sulfur dioxide in the manufacture of sulfuric acid: chemically similar to marcasite, but crystallizing in the isometric system.
- pyrogen — a substance, as a thermostable bacterial toxin, that produces a rise in temperature in a human or animal.
- pyronin — either of two synthetic red xanthene dyes, pyronin G or Y and pyronin B, used chiefly as microscopic stains
- pyrosis — heartburn (def 1).
- pyrrhic — of, relating to, or resembling Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, or his costly victory.
- pyrrhus — c318–272 b.c, king of Epirus c300–272.
- pyrrole — a colorless, toxic, liquid, five-membered ring compound, C 4 H 5 N, that is a component of chlorophyll, hemin, and many other important naturally occurring substances.
- pyruvic — of or derived from pyruvic acid.
- quandry — Misspelling of quandary.
- quartzy — resembling quartz
- quavery — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- queerly — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- quinary — pertaining to or consisting of five.
- quivery — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- rabidly — irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan.
- raceway — Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.
- rackety — making or causing a racket; noisy.
- raggedy — ragged.
- raggery — rags
- railway — a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
- rapidly — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- ratably — capable of being rated or appraised.
- rattery — the dwelling of a rat or rats
- raunchy — vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene: a raunchy joke.
- ray gun — a gun that can fire bursts of usually destructive or lethal rays: a science fiction novel whose hero has a ray gun made of gold.
- raybans — a brand of sunglasses
- rayburn — Sam, 1882–1961, U.S. lawyer and political leader: Speaker of the House 1940–47, 1949–53, 1955–61.
- rayless — lacking rays or raylike parts.
- raylike — resembling a ray
- raymond — Henry Jarvis [jahr-vis] /ˈdʒɑr vɪs/ (Show IPA), 1820–69, U.S. publicist: founder of The New York Times.
- rayonny — radiant (def 4).
- raytown — a city in W Missouri, near Kansas City.
- readily — promptly; quickly; easily: The information is readily available.
- reality — the state or quality of being real.