5-letter words containing p
- gript — a past participle and simple past tense of grip.
- gripy — resembling or causing gripes.
- groop — (obsolete, or, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch.
- grope — to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch.
- group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- grump — a person given to constant complaining.
- gulps — Plural form of gulp.
- gulpy — Inclined to gulp.
- guppy — a small, freshwater topminnow, Poecilia reticulata, often kept in aquariums.
- gupta — a dynasty of N India (a.d. 320–540) whose court was the center of classical Indian art and literature.
- gweep — /gweep/ To hack, usually at night, or one who does so. At WPI, from 1977 onward, gweeps could often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. The term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and is still alive in late 1991. "I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning." "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week." "Gweep" originated as an onomatopeiac term, evoking the sound of the (once-ubiquitous) Hazeltine 9000 terminals' bell on WPI campus. A gweep is one step above a fweep.
- gypos — gyppo.
- gyppo — a logger who operates on a small budget and typically gleans the timberlands already cut by larger companies.
- gypse — Obsolete form of gypsum.
- gypsy — a member of a nomadic, Caucasoid people of generally swarthy complexion, who migrated originally from India, settling in various parts of Asia, Europe, and, most recently, North America.
- hanap — an ornately decorated medieval goblet or cup for drinking from
- hapai — to carry; lift.
- hapax — (informal) abbreviation of hapax legomenon.
- haply — perhaps; by chance.
- happi — A loose informal Japanese coat.
- happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- hapuu — a Hawaiian tree fern, Cibotium splendens, the cut trunks of which are used in horticulture as pots and planters.
- harpe — (Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.
- harps — Plural form of harp.
- harpy — Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
- hasps — Plural form of hasp.
- heaps — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- heapy — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- helpe — Obsolete spelling of help.
- helps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of help.
- helpt — Simple past tense and past participle of help.
- hemps — Plural form of hemp.
- hempy — mischievous; often in trouble for mischief.
- hep a — hepatitis A.
- hepar — a compound containing sulphur
- hepdb — A database management system for HEP.
- hepix — A recently formed collaboration among various HEP institutes aiming at providing "compatible" versions of the Unix operating system at their sites.
- hepvm — A collaboration among various HEP institutes to implement "compatible" versions of IBM's VM-CMS operating system at their sites.
- herps — Plural form of herp.
- hipaa — In the U.S., HIPAA is an act that protects people covered by health insurance and makes rules about storing personal medical data.
- hipac — An active DBMS from Xerox Advanced Information Technology.
- hiped — Simple past tense and past participle of hipe.
- hiper — (wrestling) A wrestler who uses the hipe technique.
- hiply — In a hip way.
- hippi — High Performance Parallel Interface
- hippo — hippopotamus.
- hippy — having big hips.
- hlisp — "Monocopy and Associative Algorithms in an Extended Lisp", E. Goto, U Tokyo May 1974.
- hoops — a circular band or ring of metal, wood, or other stiff material.
- hopak — gopak.