5-letter words containing p, a, t
- patco — Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Organization
- paten — a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- pater — Latin. father of his country.
- patin — a metal plate on which the bread is placed in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- patio — an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- patis — a fish sauce used in Filipino cookery.
- patka — a head covering worn by Sikh men
- patly — in an appropriate manner; fitly
- patna — a state in NE India. 38,301 sq. mi. (99,200 sq. km). Capital: Patna.
- paton — Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- patos — La·go·a dos [luh-gaw-uh doo s] /ləˈgɔ ə dʊs/ (Show IPA) a lagoon on the Atlantic Coast in SE Brazil: Pôrto Alegre is on the lagoon. About 150 miles (240 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- patri — Angelo [an-juh-loh] /ˈæn dʒəˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1965, U.S. educator and writer, born in Italy.
- patsy — a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker.
- patte — (formerly) a band or strap for fastening a coat or other garment
- patti — Adelina [ah-de-lee-nah] /ˌɑ dɛˈli nɑ/ (Show IPA), (Adela Juana Maria Patti) 1843–1919, Italian operatic soprano, born in Spain.
- patty — any item of food covered with dough, batter, etc., and fried or baked: oyster patties.
- pc at — IBM PC AT
- peart — lively; brisk; cheerful.
- peaty — of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.
- pelta — a small shield, usually crescent shaped, used in ancient times
- peta- — prefix
- petal — one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower.
- petra — an ancient Arab kingdom of SW Asia, in the area of present-day Jordan, that became a Roman province in a.d. 106. Capital: Petra.
- pieta — a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- pinta — one of the three ships under the command of Columbus during his first voyage to America in 1492.
- pitta — any of several brilliantly colored, passerine birds of the family Pittidae, inhabiting dark, Old World, tropical forests.
- plait — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plat- — platy-
- plata — a seaport in E Argentina.
- plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- plath — Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.
- plato — 427–347 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- platy — (of an igneous rock) split into thin, flat sheets, often resembling strata, as a result of uneven cooling.
- pleat — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- ploat — to thrash; beat soundly
- porta — an aperture in an organ, such as the liver, esp one providing an opening for blood vessels
- potae — a hat
- prate — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- prato — a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- pratt — Edwin John, 1883–1964, Canadian poet.
- preta — a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- pruta — prutah.
- septa — plural of septum.
- spalt — a silly person
- spart — a type of grass or esparto
- spate — a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words.
- spats — the spawn of an oyster or similar shellfish.
- splat — a sound made by splattering or slapping.
- sprat — a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.