7-letter words containing a, p, t, e
- pluteal — relating to a pluteus
- podesta — any of certain magistrates in Italy, as a chief magistrate in medieval towns and republics.
- poke at — If you poke at something, you make lots of little pushing movements at it with a sharp object.
- polecat — a European mammal, Mustela putorius, of the weasel family, having a blackish fur and ejecting a fetid fluid when attacked or disturbed. Compare ferret1 (def 1).
- polenta — (especially in Italian cooking) a thick mush of cornmeal.
- pontage — a tax paid for the maintenance of a bridge
- portage — a city in SW Michigan.
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- postage — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- potable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- potager — a small kitchen garden
- potenza — a city in Basilicata, in S Italy.
- pothead — a person who habitually smokes marijuana.
- pottage — a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat.
- praetor — (in the ancient Roman republic) one of a number of elected magistrates charged chiefly with the administration of civil justice and ranking next below a consul.
- prattle — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- pre-tax — profits, etc.: before tax
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- precoat — A precoat is a coating which is put on a filter to test the performance of the filter.
- predata — a plural of datum.
- predate — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- preheat — to heat before using or before subjecting to some further process: to preheat an oven before baking a cake.
- prelate — an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a church dignitary.
- pretape — to record in advance of broadcast
- primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- private — privacy
- probate — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
- pronate — to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- prorate — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- protean — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
- psather — (language) A parallel extension of Sather for a clustered shared memory model. It features threads synchronised by monitor objects ("gates"); locality assertions and placement operators. There is an implementation for the CM-5.
- pteroma — pteron.
- pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- pukatea — an aromatic New Zealand tree, Laurelia novae-zealandiae, valued for its high-quality timber
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- putamen — Botany. a hard or stony endocarp, as a peach stone.
- pytheas — 4th century bc, Greek navigator. He was the first Greek to visit and describe the coasts of Spain, France, and the British Isles and may have reached Iceland
- rapture — ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
- readapt — to adapt (a person or thing) again or (of a person or thing) to adapt again
- readopt — to adopt (a person, procedure, law, etc) again
- repaint — to paint again: to repaint the house.
- repatch — to patch again
- replant — to plant again.
- replate — to put new plating on
- reptant — repent2 .
- restamp — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
- retaped — a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- sapient — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.