7-letter words containing o, t, a
- 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
- pontiac — c1720–69, North American Indian, chief of the Ottawa tribe: commander during the Pontiac War 1763–64.
- pontian — pope a.d. 230–235.
- pop art — an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.
- poptalk — (language, product) A commercial object-oriented derivative of POP, from Cambridge Consultants, used in the expert system MUSE.
- portage — a city in SW Michigan.
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- portman — a group of citizens of a town responsible for administering the affairs of that town
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- postage — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- postbag — mailbag.
- postman — a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- posttax — existing or remaining after tax is deducted
- postwar — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war: postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
- potable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- potager — a small kitchen garden
- potamic — of or relating to rivers.
- potassa — potash.
- potenza — a city in Basilicata, in S Italy.
- pothead — a person who habitually smokes marijuana.
- potomac — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- potsdam — a state in NE central Germany. 10,039 sq. mi. (26,000 sq. km). Capital: Potsdam.
- pottage — a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat.
- praetor — (in the ancient Roman republic) one of a number of elected magistrates charged chiefly with the administration of civil justice and ranking next below a consul.