5-letter words starting with p
- pisay — pisé.
- pisco — a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
- pisky — a Cornish fairy, thought to bring good luck despite being mischievous
- pissy — soiled with or reeking of urine.
- piste — a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- pitch — to smear or cover with pitch.
- pithy — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- piton — a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- pitri — the legendary progenitor of any family.
- pitta — any of several brilliantly colored, passerine birds of the family Pittidae, inhabiting dark, Old World, tropical forests.
- piura — a city in N Peru.
- piute — Paiute.
- pivot — a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
- pixel — picture element
- pixes — Ecclesiastical. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
- pixie — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
- pizz. — pizzicato
- pizza — a flat, open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with spiced tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc.
- pjpeg — Progressive JPEG
- pkzip — (tool) A file compression and archiver utility for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows from PKWARE, Inc.. PKZIP uses a variation on the sliding window compression algorithm. It comes with pkunzip and pklite and is available as shareware from most FTP archives in a self-expanding MS-DOS executable. Current versions as of 1999-10-07: PKZIP 2.60 GUI for Microsoft Windows 3.1x, Windows 9x, Windows NT; PKZIP 2.50 Command Line for Windows 9x NT; PKZIP 2.04g for MS-DOS; PKZIP 2.51 for Unix, (Linux, SPARC Solaris, Digital, HP-UX, IBM AIX and SCO Unix); PKZIP 2.50 for OS/2; PKZIP for Open VMS/VAX. A distribution in about 1995-06-22 claiming to be "PKZIP 3" was actually a Trojan horse which attempted to reformat the hard disk and delete all files on it.
- pl-11 — (language) A high-level machine-oriented language for the PDP-11 developed by R.D. Russell of CERN in Nov 1971. It is similar to PL360 and is written in Fortran IV and cross-compiled on other machines.
- pl360 — Structured assembly language for the IBM 360 and IBM 370, with a few high-level constructs. Syntactically it resembles ALGOL 60. Its grammar is defined entirely by operator precedence.
- pl516 — An ALGOL-like assembly language for the DDP-516, similar to PL360.
- plaas — a farm
- place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- plack — a very small copper coin used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries as a four-penny piece.
- plage — a sandy bathing beach at a seashore resort.
- plago — A translator-interpreter for a PL/I subset. "PLAGO/360 User's Manual, Poly Inst Brooklyn.
- plaid — any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.
- plain — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plait — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plan- — plano- (sense 1)
- plane — plane tree.
- planh — a Provençal elegiac poem.
- plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- plano — pertaining to eyeglasses that do not contain a curvature for correcting vision defects: plano sunglasses.
- plans — Programming Language for Allocation and Network Scheduling. A PL/I preprocessor, used for developing scheduling algorithms. "A User's Guide to the Programming Language for Allocation and Network Scheduling", H.R. Ramsey et al, TR SAI-77-068-DEN, Science Applications Inc (Jun 1977).
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plash — a gentle splash.
- plasm — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plat- — platy-
- plata — a seaport in E Argentina.
- plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- plath — Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.
- plato — 427–347 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- platy — (of an igneous rock) split into thin, flat sheets, often resembling strata, as a result of uneven cooling.
- playa — Western U.S. the sandy, salty, or mud-caked flat floor of a desert basin having interior drainage, usually occupied by a shallow lake during or after prolonged, heavy rains.
- plays — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plaza — a public square or open space in a city or town.
- plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.