6-letter words starting with p
- pandit — Vijaya Lakshmi [vi-jahy-uh lahk-shmee] /vɪˈdʒaɪ ə ˈlɑk ʃmi/ (Show IPA), 1900–90, Indian stateswoman (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- paneer — a fresh, soft cheese originating in India and made by curdling milk with an acid such as lemon juice.
- panful — the amount a pan can hold.
- pangea — the hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined, from about 300 to 200 million years ago.
- pangwe — Fang (def 1).
- panier — a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
- panini — flourished c400 b.c, Indian grammarian of Sanskrit.
- panino — Usually, panini. a traditional, small Italian sandwich filled with meat, cheese, grilled vegetables, etc., and usually toasted.
- panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
- panjim — an administrative territory of India, in the W part: formerly Portuguese India; annexed by India 1961. 1426 sq. mi. (3693 sq. km). Capital: Panjim.
- panned — the act of panning a camera.
- panner — someone who pans for gold
- pannus — Pathology. an abnormal vascular thickening of the cornea. an ingrowth of synovial material into a joint, as in rheumatoid arthritis.
- panoan — a family of South American Indian languages spoken in Peru, Bolivia, and western Brazil.
- pansil — Pancha Sila.
- pansys — a female given name.
- panted — to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
- panter — of or relating to pants: pant cuffs.
- pantie — panties.
- panto- — all
- panton — a soft horseshoe
- pantry — a room or closet in which food, groceries, and other provisions, or silverware, dishes, etc., are kept.
- pantun — pantoum.
- panuco — a river in E central Mexico, flowing E to the Gulf of Mexico. About 315 miles (505 km) long.
- panzer — (especially in the German army) armored: a panzer unit.
- paochi — a city in W Shaanxi province, in central China.
- paotou — Baotou
- paotow — a city in Inner Mongolia, N China, on the Yellow River (Huang He).
- papacy — the office, dignity, or jurisdiction of the pope.
- papago — a member of a North American Indian people closely related to the Pima and now living mainly in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
- papain — Biochemistry. a proteolytic enzyme found in the fruit of the papaya tree, Carica papaya.
- papaya — the large, yellow, melonlike fruit of a tropical American shrub or small tree, Carica papaya, eaten raw or cooked.
- papers — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- papery — like paper; thin or flimsy: the papery petals of the narcissus.
- paphos — an ancient city in SW Cyprus.
- papish — a Roman Catholic
- papism — Roman Catholicism.
- papist — a Roman Catholic.
- pappus — a downy, bristly, or other tuftlike appendage of the achene of certain plants, as the dandelion and the thistle.
- papuan — of or relating to New Guinea or to Papua New Guinea.
- papula — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
- papule — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
- parade — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- parage — lineage, family, or birth
- paraml — An extension of Standard ML which supports coarse-grained parallelism. Peter Bailey, while at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre at University of Edinburgh, has implemented of Murray Cole's original four skeletons in paraML. See also Skel-ML.
- paramo — a high, cold plateau of South America.
- parana — a river in central South America, flowing from S Brazil along the SE boundary of Paraguay and through E Argentina into the Río de la Plata. 2050 miles (3300 km) long.
- parang — a large, heavy knife used as a tool or a weapon in Malaysia and Indonesia.
- paraph — a flourish made after a signature, as in a document, originally as a precaution against forgery.
- parcae — an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny. Compare Parcae.