10-letter words containing y, s
- personably — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- personally — through direct contact; in person; directly: I will thank him personally.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- perversely — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- perversity — the state or quality of being perverse.
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phenotypes — the observable constitution of an organism.
- philosophy — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- phosphoryl — a radical chemical consisting of phosphorus and oxygen, represented by the symbol pO
- phossy jaw — gangrenous condition of the lower jawbone
- photolyses — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- photolysis — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- photonasty — a nastic movement in response to a change in light intensity
- photostory — photo essay.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- physiology — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- physiotype — the set of physical features that make a person or organism different from others.
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pitilessly — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
- pityriasis — Pathology. any of various skin diseases marked by the shedding of branlike scales of epidermis.
- planlessly — in a planless or aimless manner
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- plasmogamy — the fusion of the protoplasts of cells.
- plasmolyse — to subject (a cell) to plasmolysis or (of a cell) to undergo plasmolysis
- plasmolyze — to subject to or undergo plasmolysis
- plasticity — the quality or state of being plastic.
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei
- plastotype — a casting of a type specimen, especially of a fossil.
- play false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- play games — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
- pleasantly — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
- pluviosity — of or relating to rain; rainy.
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- poison ivy — a vine or shrub, Rhus radicans, having trifoliate leaves and whitish berries and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polybasite — a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.