7-letter words containing p, a, n
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- parsnip — a plant, Pastinaca sativa, cultivated varieties of which have a large, whitish, edible root.
- parsons — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- parting — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- partner — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- parvenu — a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- pass on — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- passant — (of a beast) represented as in the act of walking, with one forepaw raised.
- passing — going by or past; elapsing: He was feeling better with each passing day.
- passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
- passman — (at Oxford and Cambridge Universities) a (male) student who passes without honours
- pastern — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- pastina — very small pieces of pasta in various shapes, used especially in soups.
- pasting — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- patchen — Kenneth, 1911–72, U.S. poet and novelist.
- patency — the state of being patent.
- patient — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patined — patina.
- patinir — Joachim (ˈjəʊəkɪm). ?1485–1524, Flemish painter, noted esp for the landscapes in his paintings on religious themes
- patness — the characteristic of being pat; appropriateness; aptness
- patonce — (of a cross) having limbs which broaden from the centre and are floriated at the end
- 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.
- pattens — any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- pattern — a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.
- patting — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- patulin — a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- pauline — a female given name.
- pauling — Linus Carl [lahy-nuh s] /ˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), 1901–94, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954, Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
- paunchy — having a large and protruding belly; potbellied: a paunchy middle-aged man.
- pawnage — the act of pawning.
- pawning — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- payment — something that is paid; an amount paid; compensation; recompense.
- pealing — a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- peanuts — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- pearlin — a type of lace used to trim clothes
- pearson — Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- peasant — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- peatman — a person who sells peat
- peccant — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- pelican — any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
- pembina — highbush cranberry.
- 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.
- pen pal — a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.
- pen-pal — a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.
- penalty — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- penance — a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
- penates — the household gods of the ancient Romans
- pendant — a hanging ornament, as an earring or the main piece suspended from a necklace.
- penname — author's pseudonym