6-letter words starting with p
- partim — in part
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- partly — in part; to some extent or degree; partially; not wholly: His statement is partly true.
- parton — a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- parula — any of several American wood warblers of the genus Parula, especially P. americana (northern parula) having bluish plumage with a yellow throat and breast.
- parure — a matching set of jewels or ornaments.
- parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.
- pas op — beware
- pascal — a high-level programming language, a descendant of ALGOL, designed to facilitate structured programming.
- pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
- pascua — ˈIsla de (ˈislɑðɛ ) ; ēsˈläthe) Easter Island
- pasear — to go for a rambling walk or paseo
- pashka — a rich Russian dessert made of cottage cheese, cream, almonds, currants, etc, set in a special wooden mould and traditionally eaten at Easter
- pashto — an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- paskha — an Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, cream, raisins, nuts, etc., and pressed into a pyramidal mold: usually served with kulich.
- pasos2 — version: Alpha parts: Compiler, run-time library author: Willem Jan Withagen <[email protected]> how to get: ftp://ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl/pub/src/pascal/pasos2*. A PASCAL/i386 compiler which generates code for OS/2 and DOS. It uses EMX as DOS extender and GNU/GAS, MASM or TASM as assembler. 1993-12-17
- passed — having completed the act of passing.
- passel — a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries.
- passer — a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
- passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- passus — a section or division of a story, poem, etc.; canto.
- pasted — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- pastel — the woad plant.
- paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
- pastie — /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare tits on a keyboard.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- pataca — a nickel, silver, or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Macao, equal to 100 avos.
- pataka — a building on stilts, used for storing provisions
- patchy — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patera — a shallow ancient Roman bowl used in rituals
- pathan — Afghan (def 1).
- pathic — a catamite
- patho- — disease
- pathol — pathological
- pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- patier — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- patina — a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.
- patine — patina.
- patmos — one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- patras — Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
- patres — dead.
- patri- — father
- patrix — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patron — (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.