5-letter words containing a, p, n
- panon — A family of pattern-directed string processing languages based on generalised Markov algorithms. PANON-1 is based on simple generalised Markov algorithms and PANON-2 on conditional functional generalised Markov algorithms.
- pansy — a violet, Viola tricolor hortensis, cultivated in many varieties, having richly and variously colored flowers.
- panth — the Sikh community
- panto — pantomime (def 2).
- pants — pant leg.
- panty — panties.
- panza — Sancho, Sancho Panza.
- papen — Franz von [frahnts fuh n] /frɑnts fən/ (Show IPA), 1879–1969, German diplomat, statesman, and soldier.
- paten — a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- patin — a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- patna — a state in NE India. 38,301 sq. mi. (99,200 sq. km). Capital: Patna.
- paton — Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- pavan — a stately dance dating from the 16th century.
- pavin — pavane.
- payne — John Howard, 1791–1852, U.S. actor and dramatist.
- peano — Giuseppe Peano
- peans — any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
- pecan — a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
- pekan — the fisher, Martes pennanti.
- penal — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- penda — died 655 ad, king of Mercia (?634–55)
- penna — a contour feather, as distinguished from a down feather, plume, etc.
- penza — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- phano — fanon.
- piano — a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- piman — any of various groupings of Uto-Aztecan languages, of varying degrees of inclusiveness, comprising Pima and its closest relatives.
- pinna — Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- pinta — one of the three ships under the command of Columbus during his first voyage to America in 1492.
- pinza — Ezio [et-see-oh,, ey-zee-oh;; Italian e-tsyaw] /ˈɛt siˌoʊ,, ˈeɪ ziˌoʊ;; Italian ˈɛ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1957, Italian basso, in the U.S.
- piran — Saint. died c.480 ad, monk probably from Ireland who settled in Cornwall, giving his name to Perranporth. His flag, a white cross on a black background, is Cornwall's standard. Feast day: March 5
- pisan — a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- plain — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plan- — plano- (sense 1)
- plane — plane tree.
- planh — a Provençal elegiac poem.
- plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- plano — pertaining to eyeglasses that do not contain a curvature for correcting vision defects: plano sunglasses.
- plans — Programming Language for Allocation and Network Scheduling. A PL/I preprocessor, used for developing scheduling algorithms. "A User's Guide to the Programming Language for Allocation and Network Scheduling", H.R. Ramsey et al, TR SAI-77-068-DEN, Science Applications Inc (Jun 1977).
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plena — the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
- ponca — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- ponga — a tall tree fern, Cyathea dealbata, of New Zealand, with large feathery leaves
- poona — a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- powan — a freshwater whitefish, Coregonus clupeoides, occurring in some Scottish lakes
- prana — Yoga, Jainism. the vital principle.
- prang — to collide with; bump into.
- prank — a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
- prawn — any of various shrimplike decapod crustaceans of the genera Palaemon, Penaeus, etc., certain of which are used as food.
- púcán — traditional Connemara open sailing boat
- punan — a member of a food-gathering people living in the forests of interior Borneo.