7-letter words containing o, t, e
- peg-top — wide at the hips and narrowing to the ankle: peg-top trousers; peg-top skirts.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peloton — an ornamental glass made in Bohemia in the late 19th century, usually having a striated overlay of glass filaments in a different color.
- pentito — a person involved in organized crime who offers information to the police in return for immunity from prosecution
- pentode — a vacuum tube having five electrodes, usually a plate, three grids, and a cathode, within the same envelope.
- pentose — a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 1 0 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- peptone — any of a class of diffusible, soluble substances into which proteins are converted by partial hydrolysis.
- percoct — well-cooked; overcooked
- peridot — a green transparent variety of olivine, used as a gem.
- peshito — the standard translation of the Old and New Testaments in ancient Syriac
- 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.
- petcock — a small valve or faucet, as for draining off excess or waste material from the cylinder of a steam engine or an internal-combustion engine.
- petiole — Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- petitor — a seeker; an applicant or candidate.
- petrog. — petrography
- petrous — denoting the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- 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.
- 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.
- picotee — a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.
- piefort — piedfort.
- pierrot — a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
- piloted — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pimento — pimiento.
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- piteous — evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- pivoted — a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
- pivoter — someone who pivots
- ploesti — a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- plotter — a person or thing that plots.
- plottie — a hot, spiced drink
- plotzed — drunk; intoxicated.
- plowter — to work or play in water or mud; dabble
- podesta — any of certain magistrates in Italy, as a chief magistrate in medieval towns and republics.
- poetess — a woman who writes poetry.
- poetics — poetics.
- poetize — to write poetry.
- pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- pointel — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- pointer — a person or thing that points.
- poitier — Sidney, born 1927, U.S. actor and director.
- poitrel — a breastplate, specifically of horse's armour
- poke at — If you poke at something, you make lots of little pushing movements at it with a sharp object.
- 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.
- politer — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- pollent — strong
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- pomfret — any of several scombroid fishes of the family Bramidae, found in the North Atlantic and Pacific.