9-letter words starting with pa
- pantagamy — a communal marriage system amongst members of a community or household
- pantaleon — a keyboard instrument that preceded the piano
- pantalets — Sometimes, pantalet. long drawers extending below the skirt, with a frill or other finish at the bottom of the leg, commonly worn by women and girls in the 19th century.
- pantalone — an Italian comic character
- pantaloon — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- panthenol — pantothenyl alcohol
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- pantingly — eagerly
- pantofles — a slipper.
- pantology — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
- pantomime — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- pantropic — (especially of viruses) attracted to or affecting many types of body tissues.
- pantryman — a person who works in or has charge of a pantry, as aboard ship or in a hospital.
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- panzootic — a disease that affects all the animals in a geographical area
- pap smear — a test for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear (Pap smear or pap smear) for examination of exfoliated cells.
- paparazzi — a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.
- paparazzo — a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.
- paper bag — a carrier bag made from paper, for holding purchases, etc
- paper cup — a disposable drinking cup made of paper
- paper cut — tiny nick caused by sharp paper
- paper-net — snail mail
- paperback — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paperbark — cajeput.
- paperclip — a flat wire or plastic clip shaped so that it can hold sheets of paper between two of its loops.
- papergirl — a girl who delivers newspapers to homes.
- paperless — 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.
- papermail — snail mail
- paperware — printed matter or items made of paper
- paperwork — written or clerical work, as records or reports, forming a necessary but often a routine and secondary part of some work or job.
- papeterie — a box for holding stationery, especially an ornamental one.
- papillary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a papilla or papillae.
- papilloma — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- papillose — full of papillae.
- papillote — a decorative curled paper placed over the end of the bone of a cutlet or chop.
- papillule — a mini papilla
- par avion — by plane (used especially as a designation on matter to be sent by airmail).
- par value — face value (def 1).
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- par-three — of, relating to, or noting a small-scale golf course, usually having 18 holes of 150 yards (137 meters) in length from tee to cup on 7 to 40 acres (3 to 16 hectares) of land.
- para-bola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parabasis — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, especially of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving often to end the play.
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- parabrake — parachute brake.
- parachute — a folding, umbrellalike, fabric device with cords supporting a harness or straps for allowing a person, object, package, etc., to float down safely through the air from a great height, especially from an aircraft, rendered effective by the resistance of the air that expands it during the descent and reduces the velocity of its fall.
- paraclete — an advocate or intercessor.