6-letter words containing p, a, t
- pitaya — any of several cacti of the genus Lemaireocereus and related genera, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, bearing edible fruit.
- pitman — a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
- pitsaw — a two-handed saw used in pit sawing.
- placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- plaint — a complaint.
- planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
- planit — Programming LANguage for Interaction and Teaching. CAI language. "PLANIT - A Flexible Language Designed for Computer-Human Interaction", S.L. Feingold, Proc FJCC 31, AFIPS (Fall 1967) Sammet 1969, p.706.
- planta — the sole of the foot
- plante — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1929–86, Canadian ice-hockey player.
- plants — ["The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants", Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990. 3-54097297-8].
- platan — plane4
- plated — coated with a thin film of gold, silver, etc., as for ornamental purposes.
- platen — a flat plate in a printing press for pressing the paper against the inked type or plate to produce an impression.
- plater — a person or thing that plates.
- platon — Distributed language based on asynchronous message passing.
- platte — a river flowing E from the junction of the North and South Platte rivers in central Nebraska to the Missouri River S of Omaha. 310 miles (500 km) long.
- platy- — indicating something flat
- playte — (data, jargon) /playt/ 16 bits, by analogy with byte. Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also dynner, crumb.
- pliant — bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
- plokta — /plok't*/ Press Lots Of Keys To Abort. To press random keys in an attempt to get some response from the system. One might plokta when the abort procedure for a program is not known, or when trying to figure out if the system is just sluggish or really hung. Plokta can also be used while trying to figure out any unknown key sequence for a particular operation. Someone going into "plokta mode" usually places both hands flat on the keyboard and mashes them down, hoping for some useful response. A slightly more directed form of plokta can often be seen in mail messages or Usenet articles from new users - the text might end with ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help as the user vainly tries to find the right exit sequence, with the incorrect tries piling up at the end of the message.
- pomato — a hybrid between a tomato and a potato
- pontal — relating to a bridge
- popart — A grammar-driven programming environment generator. Uses Paddle.
- porta- — portable
- portal — portal vein.
- portia — the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
- postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- potage — soup, especially any thick soup made with cream.
- potale — residue from a grain distillery, used as animal feed
- potaro — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- potass — potash.
- potato — Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
- prater — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- pratie — a potato
- preact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- pretax — profits, etc.: before tax
- protea — any shrub or small tree of the genus Protea, of tropical and southern Africa, having flowers with coloured bracts arranged in showy heads: family Proteaceae
- prutah — a former aluminum coin of Israel, the thousandth part of a pound.
- ptisan — a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- pultan — (in India) an infantry regiment
- puntat — a walking catfish, Clarias fuscus, introduced in Hawaiian waters.
- pupate — to become a pupa.
- puteal — an enclosure around a well
- putnam — Herbert, 1861–1955, U.S. librarian: headed Library of Congress 1899–1939.
- pythia — the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracles.
- ragtop — an automobile having a folding canvas top; convertible.
- rajput — a member of a Hindu people claiming descent from the ancient Kshatriya, or warrior caste, and noted for their military spirit.
- rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- raptly — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.