8-letter words containing p, a, e
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.
- pet hate — sth disliked intensely
- pet name — a name or a term of address used to express affection for a person, thing, etc.
- pet scan — an image obtained by positron emission tomography, using a PET scanner.
- petabyte — 2 50 bytes, or 1,024 terabytes.
- petaflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of 1015 floating-point operations a second
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- petalite — a mineral, lithium aluminum silicate, Li(AlSi 4 O 1 0), occurring in colorless or white foliated masses: an important source of lithium.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- petalous — having petals.
- petaluma — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- petanque — a form of lawn bowling originating in France, usually played on rough ground using steel balls.
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- petechia — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- peterman — a safecracker.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petnaper — a person who thieves a pet in order to exact money in exchange for its return or to sell it
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- pettable — having the capability to be petted
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- phacelia — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Phacelia, of the waterleaf family, chiefly of the western U.S. and Mexico, having clusters of violet, blue, or white flowers.
- phaeacia — an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- phaestus — Phaistos.
- phaethon — a son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world.
- phalange — a phalanx.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- pheidias — Phidias
- phenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
- philabeg — filibeg.
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- piacenza — a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
- pianette — a small upright piano.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.