7-letter words starting with p
- partera — a midwife.
- parthia — an ancient country in W Asia, SE of the Caspian Sea: conquered by the Persians a.d. 226; now a part of NE Iran.
- partial — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- partied — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- partier — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- parties — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- parting — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- partita — an instrumental suite common chiefly in the 18th century.
- partite — divided into parts, usually into a specified number of parts (usually used in combination): a tripartite agreement.
- partlet — a garment for the neck and shoulders, usually ruffled and having a collar, worn in the 16th century.
- partner — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- partook — simple past tense of partake.
- parture — departure
- partway — at or to a part of the way or distance: Shall I walk you partway? I'm already partway home.
- partyer — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
- parulis — gumboil.
- parvati — the wife of Shiva and the benevolent form of the Mother Goddess.
- parvenu — a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.
- pascal- — Pascal subset used in Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers, P. Brinch Hansen, P-H 1985.
- paschal — of or relating to Easter.
- pascual — of or relating to pasture
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- pasmore — Victor. 1908–98, British artist. Originally a figurative painter, he devoted himself to abstract paintings and reliefs after 1947
- pasqual — ["Pasqual: A Proposed Generalization of Pascal", R.D. Tennent, TR75-32, Queen's U, Canada, 1975].
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- pass by — go past
- pass on — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pass up — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- passade — a turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same ground.
- passado — a forward thrust with the weapon while advancing with one foot.
- passage — a slow, cadenced trot executed with great elevation of the feet and characterized by a moment of suspension before the feet strike the ground.
- passaic — a city in NE New Jersey.
- passant — (of a beast) represented as in the act of walking, with one forepaw raised.
- passata — a sauce made from sieved tomatoes, often used in Italian cookery
- passing — going by or past; elapsing: He was feeling better with each passing day.
- passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
- passive — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- passkey — master key.
- passman — (at Oxford and Cambridge Universities) a (male) student who passes without honours
- passout — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- past it — If you say that someone or something is past it, they are no longer able to do what they used to do.
- pastern — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasties — of or like paste in consistency, texture, color, etc.
- pastime — something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport: to play cards as a pastime.
- pastina — very small pieces of pasta in various shapes, used especially in soups.
- pasting — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- pastose — having a heavy impasto.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.