7-letter words starting with p
- payment — something that is paid; an amount paid; compensation; recompense.
- paypass — a type of wave-and-pay system that employs RDIF technology, and allows shoppers to pay for low-value goods by touching their debit or credit card against an electronic reader
- payroll — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
- paysage — a landscape or representation of a landscape
- payslip — paper slip detailing wage payment
- paystub — A paystub is a piece of paper given to an employee when he or she is paid stating how much money has been earned and how much has been taken from that sum for things such as tax.
- paywall — a system in which access to all or part of a website is restricted to paid subscribers: Some newspapers have put their content behind a paywall.
- payware — /pay'weir/ Commercial software. Opposite: shareware or freeware.
- pazyryk — the site of 40 wood-lined pit tombs c500–c300 b.c. in the Altai Mountains of central Asia, containing the tattooed bodies of nomadic chieftains of the eastern Steppes and grave goods all well-preserved in a frozen state.
- pc card — Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
- pc-1834 — (computer) An IBM PC-like computer, using a K1810 WM 86 Intel 8086 clone from the formerly known Eastern bloc, introduced in 1988.
- pc-7150 — (hardware) An IBM PC-like computer, using a K1810 WM 86 Intel 8086 clone from the formerly known Eastern bloc, introduced in 1988.
- pc-ware — Pejorative term for software full of PC-isms on a machine with a more capable operating system.
- pci bus — Peripheral Component Interconnect
- pdc bit — A PDC bit is a drill bit fitted with industrial diamond cutters instead of hardened metal teeth.
- pe-tsai — Chinese cabbage.
- peabody — Elizabeth Palmer, 1804–94, U.S. educator and reformer: founded the first kindergarten in the U.S.
- peacoat — pea jacket.
- peacock — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peafowl — any of several gallinaceous birds of the genera Pavo, of India, Sri Lanka, southeastern Asia, and the East Indies, and Afropavo, of Africa.
- peakish — to become weak, thin, and sickly.
- pealing — a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- peanuts — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- pearler — a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object: valued as a gem when lustrous and finely colored. Compare cultured pearl.
- pearlin — a type of lace used to trim clothes
- pearson — Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- peasant — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- peatary — an area covered with peat; peat bog
- peatier — of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.
- peatman — a person who sells peat
- pebrine — an infectious disease of silkworms, characterized by a black spotting of the integument and by stunted growth, caused by the protozoan Nosema bomycis.
- peccant — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- peccary — any of several piglike hoofed mammals of the genus Tayassu, of North and South America, as T. tajacu (collared peccary, or javelina) having a dark gray coat with a white collar.
- peccavi — a confession of guilt or sin.
- pechora — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1110 miles (1785 km) long.
- peck at — bird: poke with beak
- pecking — to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.
- peckish — somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
- pectase — an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- pectate — a salt or ester of pectic acid.
- pectize — to change into a jelly; gel
- pectose — protopectin.
- pectous — of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- pedagog — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- peddler — a person who sells from door to door or in the street.
- pedesis — the random motion of particles in a liquid or gas; Brownian motion
- pedetic — of or relating to Brownian motion
- pedicab — (especially in Southeast Asia) a three-wheeled public conveyance operated by pedals, typically one having a hooded cab for two passengers mounted behind the driver.
- pedicel — Botany. a small stalk. an ultimate division of a common peduncle. one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- pedicle — a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.