5-letter words containing a, p
- paget — Sir James, 1814–99, English surgeon and pathologist.
- pagne — a garment worn by some African peoples, consisting of a rectangular strip of cloth fashioned into a loincloth or wrapped on the body so as to form a short skirt.
- pagri — a turban or head-scarf
- pahos — a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- paige — Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.
- paine — Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- pains — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- paint — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- pairs — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- paisa — Also, pice. an aluminum coin and monetary unit, the 100th part of the rupee of India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
- paise — Also, pice. an aluminum coin and monetary unit, the 100th part of the rupee of India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
- pajek — (mathematics) A program for analysing and visualising large networks. "Pajek" is Slovene for spider. The program runs on Windows and is free for noncommercial use. Pajek is developed by Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar with contributions from Matjaž Zaveršnik.
- pakse — a city in S Laos, on the Mekong River.
- palas — an East Indian tree
- palau — country consisting of a group of islands in the W Pacific Ocean: formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the island group became an independent republic in 1994: 630 sq mi (1,632 sq km); pop. 15,000; cap. Koror
- palay — a widely cultivated tropical vine
- pale- — paleo-
- palea — a chafflike scale or bract.
- paled — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paler — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- pales — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paley — Grace, 1922–2007, U.S. short-story writer and poet.
- palki — a palanquin; sedan chair.
- palla — a voluminous square of cloth draped around the body as a mantle or wrap, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- palls — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- pally — friendly; comradely: old friends being pally at a class reunion.
- palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- palme — (Sven) Olof (Joachim) [sven oo-lawf yoo-ah-kim] /svɛn ˈu lɔf ˈyu ɑ kɪm/ (Show IPA), 1927–86, Swedish political leader: prime minister 1969–76, 1982–86; assassinated.
- palmy — glorious, prosperous, or flourishing: the palmy days of yesteryear.
- palos — a seaport in SW Spain: starting point of Columbus's first voyage westward.
- palpi — plural of palpus.
- palsa — a mound of earth pushed up by or formed near the edge of a glacier, found in alpine and arctic areas.
- palsy — any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body.
- pampa — a city in N Texas.
- pamph — pamphlet
- pamuk — Orhan. born 1952, Turkish novelist and writer; author of The Black Book (1990), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002), and Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003). Nobel prize for literature 2006
- panax — any perennial herb of the genus Panax
- panay — an island in the central Philippines. 4446 sq. mi. (11,515 sq. km). Capital: Iloilo.
- panda — Also called giant panda. a white-and-black, bearlike mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, now rare and restricted to forest areas of central China containing stands of bamboo, on which it mainly subsists: formerly placed with the raccoon family but now classified as a bear subfamily, Ailuropodinae, or as the sole member of a separate family, Ailuropodidae, which diverged from an ancestral bear lineage.
- pandy — a stroke on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap given as a punishment in school.
- paned — having panes (usually used in combination): a diamond-paned window.
- panel — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- panga — a large, broad-bladed African knife used as a weapon or as an implement for cutting heavy jungle growth, sugar cane, etc.; machete.
- pangs — a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
- panic — Also called panic grass. any grass of the genus Panicum, many species of which bear edible grain.
- panim — a heathen or pagan
- panko — Japanese-style breadcrumbs in large, coarse flakes: panko-crusted fish fillets.
- panne — a soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
- 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.