7-letter words containing c, i, p, a
- pa chin — (Li Fei-kan) Ba Jin.
- pachisi — a board game, originated in ancient India, in which four players advance four pieces each along a route on a cross-shaped board toward a center square by throws of cowrie shells or dice.
- pacific — tending to make or preserve peace; conciliatory: pacific overtures.
- pack in — Hunting. a number of hounds, especially foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt.
- packing — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- paction — an agreement or bargain
- panicky — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- panicle — a compound raceme.
- panicum — any of the grasses in the genus Panicum, including panic grass
- paretic — partial motor paralysis.
- parodic — having or of the nature of a parody.
- parotic — situated about or near the ear.
- passaic — a city in NE New Jersey.
- patrick — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
- patrico — a fraudulent priest
- paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
- peccavi — a confession of guilt or sin.
- pedicab — (especially in Southeast Asia) a three-wheeled public conveyance operated by pedals, typically one having a hooded cab for two passengers mounted behind the driver.
- pelagic — of or relating to the open seas or oceans.
- pelican — any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
- pemican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
- peracid — an oxyacid, the primary element of which is in its highest possible oxidation state, as perchloric acid, HClO 4 , and permanganic acid, HMnO 4 .
- phacoid — having a form or structure like that of a lens
- phallic — of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.
- picabia — Francis. 1879–1953, French painter, designer, and writer, associated with the cubist, Dadaist, and surrealist movements
- picacho — a pointed solitary mountain or peak
- picador — one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance.
- picamar — a hydrocarbon oil extracted from beechwood tar
- picante — prepared so as to be very hot and spicy, especially with a hot and spicy sauce.
- picardy — a region in N France: formerly a province.
- picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- piccard — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1884–1962, Swiss physicist, aeronaut, inventor, and deep-sea explorer: designer of bathyscaphes.
- piccata — cooked, served, or sauced with lemon and parsley: veal piccata.
- pick at — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pickaxe — a pick, especially a mattock.
- pickmaw — a type of gull with a black head
- picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
- pigface — a creeping succulent plant of the genus Carpobrotus, having bright-coloured flowers and red fruits and often grown for ornament: family Aizoaceae
- pincase — a case for holding pins
- pinnace — a light sailing ship, especially one formerly used in attendance on a larger ship.
- piscary — Law. the right or privilege of fishing in particular waters.
- piscean — a person born under the sign of Pisces.
- piscina — a basin with a drain used for certain ablutions, now generally in the sacristy.
- placing — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- placoid — platelike, as the scales or dermal investments of sharks.
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- pliancy — bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- pnambic — (jargon) /p*-nam'bik/ (From the scene in the film, "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first discovered: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"). A term coined by Daniel Klein <[email protected]> for a stage of development of a process or function that, owing to incomplete implementation or to the complexity of the system, requires human interaction to simulate or replace some or all of its actions, inputs or outputs. The term may also be applied to a process or function whose apparent operations are wholly or partially falsified or one requiring prestidigitization. The ultimate pnambic product was "Dan Bricklin's Demo", a program which supported flashy user-interface design prototyping. There is a related maxim among hackers: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." See magic for illumination of this point.