English words starting with py

Meanings of Pya:

noun

A monetary unit of burma (myanmar), equal to one hundredth of a kyat.

Meanings of Pyaemia:

noun

Blood poisoning (septicaemia) caused by the spread in the bloodstream of pus-forming bacteria released from an abscess.

Usage examples:

Nothing seemed to halt pyemia, and it had a mortality rate of over 90%.

Meanings of Pyarthrosis:

noun

The presence or formation of pus in a joint; septic arthritis; an instance of this.

Meanings of Pyas:

noun

A monetary unit of burma (myanmar), equal to one hundredth of a kyat.

Meanings of Pycnial:

adjective

Of, relating to, or of the nature of a pycnium; resulting from pycnia.

Meanings of Pycnic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting a stocky physique with a rounded body and head, thickset trunk, and a tendency to fat.

Usage examples:

One's physical or bodily shape can be classified into the pyknic type, the muscular type and the in…

Meanings of Pycnid:

noun

Originally: a fruiting body of certain lichens. later also: = pycnidium .

Meanings of Pycnidial:

adjective

Of or relating to a pycnidium; having pycnidia; of the nature of a pycnidium.

Meanings of Pycnidiophore:

noun

A structure bearing pycnidia.

Meanings of Pycnidiospore:

noun

A conidium developed inside a pycnidium.

Meanings of Pycnidium:

noun

In certain fungi (chiefly deuteromycetes): a flask-shaped or spherical fruiting body (conidioma) containing spore-bearing cells.

Meanings of Pycniospore:

noun

A spore from a pycnium; a spermatium.

Meanings of Pycnite:

noun

An off-white to lemon yellow variety of topaz occurring in columnar aggregations.

Meanings of Pycnium:

noun

In rust fungi: a flask-shaped fruiting body producing haploid spores and receptive hyphae, which after fertilization results in the formation of an aecium; a spermogonium.

Meanings of Pycnoconidium:

noun

A pycnidiospore, especially of a lichenized ascomycete.

Meanings of Pycnodont:

noun

Any of various extinct holostean fishes of the family pycnodontidae or order pycnodontiformes, which are usually deep-bodied and characterized by a pavement of crushing teeth in the upper and lower jaws, and are known from fossils of the mesozoic era.

adjective

Of, relating to, or belonging to this group of fishes.

Meanings of Pycnodontoid:

adjective

Relating or belonging to a group of extinct fishes which includes the family pycnodontidae and closely related forms.

noun

A fish of this group.

Meanings of Pycnogonid:

noun

Any of various marine chelicerate arthropods constituting the class pycnogonida, characterized by very small bodies and long legs which contain extensions of the gut and gonads; a sea spider.

adjective

Of or relating to the class pycnogonida.

Meanings of Pycnometer:

noun

A container used for finding the relative density of a liquid by measuring its weight when filled with the liquid and comparing it with the weight when filled with water.

Meanings of Pycnomorphic:

adjective

= pycnomorphous .

Meanings of Pycnomorphous:

adjective

(especially of certain nerve cells) characterized by dense staining material, so that the cell stains deeply.

Meanings of Pycnosis:

noun

Reduction in size and increase in staining of a cell or (more commonly) its nucleus, usually indicating degeneration or necrosis; an instance of this.

Meanings of Pycnospore:

noun

A pycnidiospore; (occasionally also) a pycniospore.

Meanings of Pycnostyle:

noun

A building, especially one of classical or neoclassical design, having a row of columns placed close together, typically so that the distance between adjacent columns is equal to one and a half times the diameter of a column.

adjective

Having or designating such an arrangement of columns.

Meanings of Pycnotic:

adjective

Designating a theory according to which the matter in the universe was formed by condensation of a universal substance or ether at particular points; of or relating to this theory.