6-letter words containing c, a, p
- pactum — a pact
- paczki — a traditional Polish doughnut, filled with jam or another sweet filling and covered with powdered sugar or icing.
- palace — the official residence of a king, queen, bishop, or other sovereign or exalted personage.
- panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
- panuco — a river in E central Mexico, flowing E to the Gulf of Mexico. About 315 miles (505 km) long.
- paochi — a city in W Shaanxi province, in central China.
- papacy — the office, dignity, or jurisdiction of the pope.
- parcae — an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny. Compare Parcae.
- parcel — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parica — a snuff used by certain Indians of South America containing dimethyltryptamine and other hallucinogenic agents, obtained from the seeds of the tree Piptadenia peregrina.
- 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.
- 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
- pataca — a nickel, silver, or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Macao, equal to 100 avos.
- patchy — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pathic — a catamite
- patuca — a river rising in E central Honduras and flowing NE to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- paucal — a grammatical number occurring in some languages for words in contexts where a few of their referents are described or referred to
- paunce — Obsolete form of pansy.
- paunch — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- pcmcia — (body, standard) Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. (Or People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms).
- peachy — resembling a peach, as in color or appearance.
- pebcak — (humour) (Or "PEBKAC", "PBCAK", "PBKAC") Tech support shorthand for "Problem (Exists) between Chair and Keyboard". An alternative is "PICNIC" - "Problem In Chair, Not In Computer". An acronym commonly used by helpdesk technicians to indicate that a problem is due to the user rather than the system. See also UBD.
- pebkac — PEBCAK
- pesach — Passover (def 1).
- phaeic — (of animals) having dusky coloration; less dark than melanic
- phasic — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phatic — denoting speech used to express or create an atmosphere of shared feelings, goodwill, or sociability rather than to impart information: phatic communion.
- pianic — yaws.
- picara — a woman who is a rogue or vagabond.
- picard — Charles Émile [sharl ey-meel] /ʃarl eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1941, French mathematician.
- picaro — a rogue or vagabond.
- pickax — a pick, especially a mattock.
- piracy — software piracy
- placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- placer — a person who sets things in their place or arranges them.
- places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- placid — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plaice — a European flatfish, Pleuronectes platessa, used for food.
- planch — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- planck — Max Karl Ernst [mahks kahrl ernst] /mɑks kɑrl ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1858–1947, German physicist: Nobel prize 1918.
- pleach — to interweave (branches, vines, etc.), as for a hedge or arbor.
- plicae — Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- poachy — (of land) slushy; swampy.
- pochay — to transport by post-chaise
- polack — Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Pole or person of Polish descent.
- pomace — the pulpy residue from apples or similar fruit after crushing and pressing, as in cider making.
- poonac — a coconut residue, mainly used as animal fodder