6-letter words containing a, p, e
- le cap — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- leaped — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leaper — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leipoa — mallee fowl.
- lenape — Delaware (defs 5, 6).
- lepcha — a member of a people of Sikkim and adjacent areas of Nepal, Bhutan, and India.
- lipase — any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- madnep — (obsolete) The masterwort (Peucedanum ostruthium).
- magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
- makeup — facial cosmetics, as eye shadow or lipstick.
- maples — Plural form of maple.
- mapped — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- mapper — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- mencap — a charity that helps people with learning difficulties and promotes their interests in society
- metaph — metaphor
- metepa — a substance, C9H18N3OP, that is used in pest control to sterilize male insects
- mopane — A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Angola and Malawi.
- napery — table linen, as tablecloths or napkins.
- napier — Sir Charles James, 1782–1853, British general.
- naples — a region in SW Italy. 5214 sq. mi. (13,505 sq. km). Capital: Naples.
- napped — to sleep for a short time; doze.
- napper — a person who naps or dozes.
- nappes — Plural form of nappe.
- nappie — a small shallow dish, usually round and often of glass, with a flat bottom and sloping sides, for serving food.
- neaped — grounded until the next cycle of spring tides.
- nepali — Also, Nepalese. an Indic language spoken in Nepal.
- nepean — a former city in SE Ontario, Canada, now part of Ottawa.
- nepman — (in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.
- opaled — made like an opal, in terms of iridescence
- opaque — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- operas — Plural form of opera.
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- optate — (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- p wave — a longitudinal wave that advances by alternate compression and expansion in a solid or fluid medium, like a sound wave
- p-wave — a longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the first conspicuous wave to be recorded by a seismograph.
- packed — transporting, or used in transporting, a pack or load: pack animals.
- packer — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- packet — a small group or package of anything: a packet of letters.
- padded — a dull, muffled sound, as of footsteps on the ground.
- padder — a highwayman who steals on foot
- paddle — a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
- padeye — a ring fixed to the structure of a ship as a hold for small lines, tackles, etc.
- paedo- — indicating a child or children
- paella — a Spanish dish prepared by simmering together chicken, seafood, rice, vegetables, and saffron and other seasonings.
- pained — hurt; injured.
- pairle — a device representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium, consisting of a broad Y -shaped form covered with crosses.
- paiute — a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
- pakeha — (in New Zealand) a person who is not of Māori ancestry, esp a White person
- palace — the official residence of a king, queen, bishop, or other sovereign or exalted personage.
- palade — George Emil, 1912–2008, U.S. biologist, born in Romania: Nobel Prize in medicine 1974.