5-letter words containing a, p
- phyma — a nodule, swelling, or small, rounded tumor of the skin.
- pi-pa — a short-necked fretted lute of Chinese origin.
- piano — a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- piaui — a state in NE Brazil. 96,860 sq. mi. (250,870 sq. km). Capital: Teresina.
- piave — a river in NE Italy, flowing S and SE into the Adriatic. 137 miles (220 km) long.
- pibal — the measurement and computation of the speed and direction of winds by theodolitic tracking of a pilot balloon.
- pical — of or relating to pica
- picra — a powder made up of aloes and canella which is used as a laxative or digestive cleanser
- pieta — a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- pikau — a pack, knapsack, or rucksack
- pilaf — a Middle Eastern dish consisting of sautéed, seasoned rice steamed in bouillon, sometimes with poultry, meat or shellfish.
- pilar — of, relating to, or covered with hair.
- pilau — pilaf.
- pilaw — pilaf.
- pilea — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Pilea, of the nettle family, many species of which are cultivated for their ornamental foliage.
- 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.
- pipal — a fig tree, Ficus religiosa, of India, somewhat resembling the banyan.
- pippa — a female given name, Italian form of Philippa.
- piqua — a city in W Ohio.
- pirai — a piranha fish
- 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.
- pisay — pisé.
- pitta — any of several brilliantly colored, passerine birds of the family Pittidae, inhabiting dark, Old World, tropical forests.
- piura — a city in N Peru.
- pizza — a flat, open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with spiced tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc.
- plaas — a farm
- place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- plack — a very small copper coin used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries as a four-penny piece.
- plage — a sandy bathing beach at a seashore resort.
- plago — A translator-interpreter for a PL/I subset. "PLAGO/360 User's Manual, Poly Inst Brooklyn.
- plaid — any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.
- plain — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plait — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- 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.
- plash — a gentle splash.
- plasm — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plat- — platy-
- plata — a seaport in E Argentina.
- plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- plath — Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.