7-letter words containing a, t, o, p
- outplay — to play better than.
- outpray — to exceed in praying or overcome by prayer
- outspan — to unyoke or unhitch, as oxen from a wagon.
- overapt — too apt or having an excessive tendency (to)
- paction — an agreement or bargain
- pad out — written piece: add words
- paletot — any of various loose or fitted coats or jackets for men and women, especially a close-fitting jacket worn over a dress by women in the 19th century.
- palmtop — a battery-powered computer small enough to fit in the palm of the hand.
- paltrow — Gwyneth (Kate). born 1972, US film actress; her films include Emma (1996), Sliding Doors (1998), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Sylvia (2003)
- pan out — a broad, shallow container of metal, usually having sides flaring outward toward the top, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
- pantone — (graphics) A set of standard colours for printing, each of which is specified by a single number. You can buy a Pantone swatch book containing samples of each colour. Some computer graphics software allows colours to be specified as Pantone numbers. Even though a computer monitor can only show an approximation to some of the colours, the software can output a colour separation for each different Pantone colour, enabling a print shop to exactly reproduce the original desired colour.
- pantoum — a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
- paoting — a city in central Hebei province, in NE China.
- parotic — situated about or near the ear.
- parotid — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
- parotis — a parotid gland
- parroty — like a parrot; chattering
- partook — simple past tense of partake.
- passout — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pastose — having a heavy impasto.
- patmore — Coventry (Kersey Dighton) [kov-uh n-tree kur-zee dahyt-n,, duhv-uh n‐] /ˈkɒv ən tri ˈkɜr zi ˈdaɪt n,, ˈdʌv ən‐/ (Show IPA), 1823–96, English poet and essayist.
- patonce — (of a cross) having limbs which broaden from the centre and are floriated at the end
- patrico — a fraudulent priest
- patriot — a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.
- patroon — a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- pay out — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- peacoat — pea jacket.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- petasos — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- phaeton — any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- phantom — an apparition or specter.
- phonate — to articulate speech sounds, esp to cause the vocal cords to vibrate in the execution of a voiced speech sound
- phorate — a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 1 7 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- pigboat — a submarine.
- pintado — cero (def 1).
- pintano — sergeant major (def 3).
- pistoia — a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- pivotal — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- platoon — a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
- podcast — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- podesta — any of certain magistrates in Italy, as a chief magistrate in medieval towns and republics.
- pointal — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- poke at — If you poke at something, you make lots of little pushing movements at it with a sharp object.
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- 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.
- poltava — a city in E Ukraine, SW of Kharkov: Russian defeat of Swedes 1709.
- polyact — (of a sea creature) having many tentacles or limb-like protrusions
- pomatum — pomade.
- pontage — a tax paid for the maintenance of a bridge