7-letter words containing p, a, t, i
- 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.
- pigboat — a submarine.
- pigtail — a braid of hair hanging down the back of the head.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pileate — having a pileus.
- pinnate — resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement; having parts arranged on each side of a common axis: a pinnate branch; pinnate trees.
- pintado — cero (def 1).
- pintail — a long-necked river duck, Anas acuta, of the Old and New Worlds, having long and narrow middle tail feathers.
- pintano — sergeant major (def 3).
- piquant — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- pirated — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- pissant — Slang: Vulgar. a person or thing of no value or consequence; a despicable person or thing.
- pistoia — a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- pit saw — a large saw used, esp. formerly, to cut timber lengthwise and worked by two men, one standing above the log, the other in a pit below it
- pitanga — Surinam cherry.
- pitapat — with a quick succession of beats or taps: Her heart beat pitapat with excitement.
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- pitfall — a lightly covered and unnoticeable pit prepared as a trap for people or animals.
- pithead — a mine entrance and the surrounding area.
- pituita — thick nasal secretion; phlegm
- pivotal — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- plaited — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plaiter — a person who plaits something such as wool, hair, or threads
- plantin — Christophe [kree-stawf] /kriˈstɔf/ (Show IPA), c1520–1589, French typographer.
- 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.
- plastid — a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.
- platina — a native alloy of platinum with palladium, iridium, osmium, etc.
- plating — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platini — Michel. born 1955, French footballer, manager, and administrator; scored 41 goals in 72 games for France (1976–87); European Footballer of the Year (1983–85); president of UEFA (2007–2015)
- platypi — a small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Australia and Tasmania, having webbed feet, a tail like that of a beaver, a sensitive bill resembling that of a duck, and, in adult males, venom-injecting spurs on the ankles of the hind limbs, used primarily for fighting with other males during the breeding season.
- plaudit — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- play it — to act in a (specified) manner
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- pointal — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- pontiac — c1720–69, North American Indian, chief of the Ottawa tribe: commander during the Pontiac War 1763–64.
- pontian — pope a.d. 230–235.
- potamic — of or relating to rivers.
- practic — practical.
- prakrit — any of the vernacular Indic languages of the ancient and medieval periods, as distinguished from Sanskrit.
- prating — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- pravity — depravity, moral degeneracy, perversion
- primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- pripyat — a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- private — privacy
- ptarmic — a material that causes sneezing
- ptyalin — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
- puritan — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.