10-letter words containing yp
- hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
- hypozeuxis — the use of a series of parallel clauses, each of which has a subject and predicate, as in “I came, I saw, I conquered.”.
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- hypsometry — vertical control in mapping; the establishment of elevations or altitudes.
- hypsophobe — a person who suffers from hypsophobia
- hypsophyll — a leaf located beneath a spore-bearing leaf
- ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
- interglyph — a surface between two grooves, as on a triglyph.
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.
- karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.
- karyotypic — Of or pertaining to karyotypes.
- kelyphitic — as in kelyphitic rim, a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- keypuncher — A keypunch.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- kryptonate — (inorganic chemistry) To infuse a solid with krypton gas (especially with radioactive krypton-85).
- kryptonite — The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an Achilles' heel.
- lithoglyph — an incision or engraving on a gem or stone
- media hype — intensive or exaggerated publicity in the mass media
- nickeltype — an electrotype with a deposit of nickel.
- nontypical — not typical; unusual
- palaeotype — a system of Roman letters and symbols that represent spoken sounds
- petroglyph — a drawing or carving on rock, made by a member of a prehistoric people.
- phenotypes — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
- photoglyph — an engraved plate, produced by the action of light, and from which prints or impressions are taken
- physiotype — the set of physical features that make a person or organism different from others.
- plastotype — a casting of a type specimen, especially of a fossil.
- polyphagia — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphagic — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- polyphemus — a Cyclops who was blinded by Odysseus.
- polyphenol — a polymeric phenol.
- polyphonic — consisting of many voices or sounds.
- polyploidy — having a chromosome number that is more than double the basic or haploid number.
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- pontypridd — an industrial town in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 29 781 (2001)
- procrypsis — a protective coloration in animals
- procryptic — serving to conceal an animal from predators.
- prototyper — An interface builder for the Macintosh from Smethers Barnes.
- prototypic — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
- roma gypsy — a member of a people scattered throughout Europe and North America, who maintain a nomadic way of life in industrialized societies
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- sixtypenny — noting a nail 6 inches (15 cm) long. Abbreviation: 60d.
- somatotype — (of humans) physical type; physique.
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stereotype — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypy — the stereotype process.
- syphilitic — pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis.