7-letter words containing a, p, i
- pluvial — of or relating to rain, especially much rain; rainy.
- pluvian — a crocodile bird
- pnambic — (jargon) /p*-nam'bik/ (From the scene in the film, "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first discovered: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"). A term coined by Daniel Klein <[email protected]> for a stage of development of a process or function that, owing to incomplete implementation or to the complexity of the system, requires human interaction to simulate or replace some or all of its actions, inputs or outputs. The term may also be applied to a process or function whose apparent operations are wholly or partially falsified or one requiring prestidigitization. The ultimate pnambic product was "Dan Bricklin's Demo", a program which supported flashy user-interface design prototyping. There is a related maxim among hackers: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." See magic for illumination of this point.
- podalic — pertaining to the feet.
- pogonia — a terrestrial orchid of the genus Pogonia, of North America.
- pointal — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- polaris — a distinctive English argot in use since at least the 18th century among groups of theatrical and circus performers and in certain homosexual communities, derived largely from Italian, directly or through Lingua Franca.
- polonia — the Polish-American community in a given place outside Poland
- pompeia — flourished 1st century b.c, second wife of Julius Caesar, divorced in 62 b.c. Compare Calpurnia, Cornelia (def 2).
- poniard — a small, slender dagger.
- pontiac — c1720–69, North American Indian, chief of the Ottawa tribe: commander during the Pontiac War 1763–64.
- pontian — pope a.d. 230–235.
- popinac — huisache.
- porangi — crazy; mad
- porirua — a city in New Zealand, on the North Island just north of Wellington. Pop: 50 600 (2004 est)
- potamic — of or relating to rivers.
- practic — practical.
- prairie — a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- praised — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- praiser — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prakrit — any of the vernacular Indic languages of the ancient and medieval periods, as distinguished from Sanskrit.
- praline — a French confection consisting of a caramel-covered almond or, sometimes, a hazelnut.
- prating — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- pravity — depravity, moral degeneracy, perversion
- pray-in — a form of social protest in which demonstrators engage in passive resistance and prayer: popular especially in the 1970s.
- praying — uttering prayers (to God or other object of worship)
- predial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- prepaid — to pay or arrange to pay beforehand or before due: to prepay the loan.
- prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- priapic — (sometimes initial capital letter) of or relating to Priapus; phallic.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- pridian — relating to yesterday
- primacy — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primage — a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.
- primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primula — primrose (def 1).
- pripyat — a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- prisage — the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported.
- privacy — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privado — a close friend
- private — privacy
- propria — a nonessential property common to all the members of a class; attribute.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- proxima — a flare star in the constellation Centaurus that is the nearest star to the sun. It is a red dwarf of very low magnitude. Distance: 4.3 light years
- prussia — a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles)
- ptarmic — a material that causes sneezing
- ptyalin — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
- pulaski — a double-edged hand tool having an ax blade on one side and a pickax or wide chisel on the opposite side, used especially in clearing land and removing tree stumps.
- punjabi — a native or inhabitant of the Punjab.