6-letter words containing a, p, o
- paphos — an ancient city in SW Cyprus.
- paramo — a high, cold plateau of South America.
- pardon — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- pareto — Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- parlog — Clark & Gregory, Imperial College 1983. An AND-parallel Prolog, with guards and committed choice nondeterminism (don't care nondeterminism). Shallow backtracking only. Implementations: MacParlog and PC-Parlog from Parallel Logic Programming Ltd., Box 49 Twickenham TW2 5PH, UK. See also SPM.
- parlor — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parmod — "Parallel Programming with ParMod", S. Eichholz, Proc 1987 Intl Conf on Parallel Proc, pp.377-380.
- parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parole — language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
- parore — a dark brownish-green fish, Girella tricuspidata of coastal and estuarine waters in New Zealand's North Island and Australia
- parrot — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- parton — a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- pas op — beware
- pashto — an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- pasos2 — version: Alpha parts: Compiler, run-time library author: Willem Jan Withagen <[email protected]> how to get: ftp://ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl/pub/src/pascal/pasos2*. A PASCAL/i386 compiler which generates code for OS/2 and DOS. It uses EMX as DOS extender and GNU/GAS, MASM or TASM as assembler. 1993-12-17
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patho- — disease
- pathol — pathological
- pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- patmos — one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patron — (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
- patton — Charley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
- pavior — a person that paves; paver.
- pavlov — Ivan Petrovich [ee-vahn pyi-traw-vyich] /iˈvɑn pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1849–1936, Russian physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1904.
- pavone — a peacock
- paxton — Sir Joseph, 1801–65, English horticulturist and architect.
- paybox — box office (def 1).
- payoff — the payment of a salary, debt, wager, etc.
- payola — a secret or private payment in return for the promotion of a product, service, etc., through the abuse of one's position, influence, or facilities.
- payout — an act or instance of paying, expending, or disbursing.
- payton — Walter ("Sweetness") 1954–99, U.S. football player.
- peapod — the part of a pea plant that surrounds the growing peas
- pedalo — pedal boat
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- peoria — a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- pesaro — a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- pessoa — Fernando. 1888–1935, Portuguese poet, who ascribed much of his work to three imaginary poets, Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, and Ricardo Reis
- phaedo — a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, purporting to describe the death of Socrates, dealing with the immortality of the soul, and setting forth the theory of Ideas.
- phago- — eating, consuming, or destroying
- pharos — a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- phasor — a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- phobia — a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
- pholas — a type of bivalve mollusc that is a member of the genus Pholas and family Pholadidae
- phonal — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- phwoar — an admiring sound, roughly same as 'cor'; used to denote sexual attraction to another person
- picaro — a rogue or vagabond.
- pimola — an olive stuffed with red sweet pepper; stuffed olive.