Words That Start With: PY

• a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries

• (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers

• A small box

• A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds; a pyxidium

• A nautical compass

• The box in which ashes are stored for Ash Wednesday

• Acetabulum

• A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.

• a borosilicate glass with a low coefficient of expansion; used for heat-resistant glassware in cooking and chemistry

• a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection

• creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

• of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece

• of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables

• of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)

• a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables

• an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare