9-letter words containing p, l, a, y
- palpatory — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- panically — in a panicky manner
- pantingly — eagerly
- pantology — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
- papillary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a papilla or papillae.
- paralysed — unable to move and with no feeling
- paralyses — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- paralytic — a person affected with paralysis.
- paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
- parleyvoo — to speak French
- parlyaree — Polari.
- parsleyed — cooked with or sprinkled with parsley
- partially — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- passingly — in passing; in a passing manner
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- pathology — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- patiently — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patriliny — the tracing of descent exclusively through the male members of a family.
- patrology — Also called patristics. the branch of theology dealing with the teachings of the church fathers.
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses
- pay cable — cable television.
- pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
- pay scale — salary range
- payloader — a heavy, wheeled vehicle with a large, movable blade or scoop at the front.
- 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.
- pendantly — in the shape or manner of a pendant
- 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
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pep rally — a meeting, especially of students before an interscholastic athletic contest, to stimulate group enthusiasm by rousing talks, songs, cheers, etc.
- 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
- philately — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
- photoplay — a motion-picture scenario; screenplay.
- phylactic — defending or protecting, especially from disease.
- phylakopi — an archaeological site on the Greek island of Melos, in the Cyclades group: excavations have revealed the remains of three successive ancient cities erected on a primitive Cycladic settlement.
- phylarchy — a government led by a phylarch
- physicals — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- pilcomayo — a river in S central South America, flowing SE from S Bolivia along the boundary between Paraguay and Argentina to the Paraguay River at Asunción. 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
- pink lady — a cocktail made with gin, grenadine, and the white of eggs, shaken and strained before serving.
- pipe clay — a white, plastic clay used for making clay tobacco pipes or pottery, for whitening leather, etc.
- pipe-clay — to whiten with pipe clay.