Index of English words, starting with "py"

(1) - Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

(1) - Pyuria (n.) A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.

(1) - Pyx (v. t.) To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.
(2) - Pyx (n.) Same as Pyxis.
(3) - Pyx (n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
(4) - Pyx (n.) A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.
(5) - Pyx (n.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

(1) - Pyxidium (n.) The theca of mosses.
(2) - Pyxidium (n.) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.