6-letter words containing a, p, s
- parsec — a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- parsee — an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- parser — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- parsva — a semilegendary Tirthankara of the 8th century b.c., said to have been born after a series of pious incarnations in each of which he was killed by an antagonist who had originally been his elder brother: the twenty-third Tirthankara.
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.
- pas op — beware
- pascal — a high-level programming language, a descendant of ALGOL, designed to facilitate structured programming.
- pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
- pascua — ˈIsla de (ˈislɑðɛ ) ; ēsˈläthe) Easter Island
- pasear — to go for a rambling walk or paseo
- pashka — a rich Russian dessert made of cottage cheese, cream, almonds, currants, etc, set in a special wooden mould and traditionally eaten at Easter
- pashto — an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- paskha — an Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, cream, raisins, nuts, etc., and pressed into a pyramidal mold: usually served with kulich.
- 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
- passed — having completed the act of passing.
- passel — a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries.
- passer — a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
- passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- passus — a section or division of a story, poem, etc.; canto.
- pasted — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- pastel — the woad plant.
- paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
- pastie — /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare tits on a keyboard.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- 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.
- patras — Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
- patres — dead.
- patsys — a male given name, form of Patrick.
- pattys — a female given name, form of Patience or Patricia.
- paused — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- pavese — Cesare (ˈtʃeːzare). 1908–50, Italian writer and translator. His works include collections of poems, such as Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi (1953), short stories, such as the collection Notte di festa (1953), and the novel La Luna e i falò (1950)
- pavise — a large oblong shield of the late 14th through the early 16th centuries, often covering the entire body and used especially by archers and soldiers of the infantry.
- pearls — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearse — Patrick (Henry), Irish name Pádraic. 1879–1916, Irish nationalist, who planned and led the Easter Rising (1916): executed by the British
- peasen — bill3 (def 4).
- pelias — a son of Poseidon and Tyro. He feared his nephew Jason and sent him to recover the Golden Fleece, hoping he would not return
- persia — Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- pesach — Passover (def 1).
- pesade — a maneuver in which the horse is made to rear, keeping its hind legs stationary and its forelegs drawn in.
- pesaro — a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- peseta — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- pesewa — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Ghana, the 100th part of a cedi.
- pessoa — Fernando. 1888–1935, Portuguese poet, who ascribed much of his work to three imaginary poets, Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, and Ricardo Reis