7-letter words containing p, a, c, t
- picante — prepared so as to be very hot and spicy, especially with a hot and spicy sauce.
- 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.
- picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
- placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placket — the opening or slit at the top of a skirt, or in a dress or blouse, that facilitates putting it on and taking it off.
- 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.
- playact — to engage in make-believe.
- plectra — plectrum.
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- 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.
- 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).
- polyact — (of a sea creature) having many tentacles or limb-like protrusions
- pontiac — c1720–69, North American Indian, chief of the Ottawa tribe: commander during the Pontiac War 1763–64.
- potamic — of or relating to rivers.
- 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.
- practic — practical.
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- precoat — A precoat is a coating which is put on a filter to test the performance of the filter.
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- ptarmic — a material that causes sneezing
- ratpack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- repatch — to patch again
- rootcap — the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- spastic — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
- spathic — like spar.
- spectra — a plural of spectrum.
- spicate — having spikes, as a plant.
- splatch — a large splash or splatter
- stackup — stack (def 13).
- tampico — a seaport in SE Tamaulipas, in E Mexico.
- tapioca — a food substance prepared from cassava in granular, flake, pellet (pearl tapioca) or flour form, used in puddings, as a thickener, etc.
- tappice — to squat or lie close to the ground in order to hide
- teacups — a cup in which tea is served, usually of small or moderate size.
- telepac — (networking) The Swiss PTT X.25 network.
- tipcart — a cart with a body that can be tipped or tilted to empty it of its contents.
- top cat — the most powerful or important person
- toparch — the ruler of a small state or realm
- topcoat — a lightweight overcoat.
- topical — pertaining to or dealing with matters of current or local interest: a topical reference.
- tripack — a superimposition of three photographic plates or films
- typical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- upcatch — to catch up (with); to arrive at the same point as
- upcoast — along a coast in a northward direction
- usucapt — to take possession of (property)
- whipcat — a tailor
- zapotec — a member of an American Indian people living in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.