5-letter words containing p, a
- 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.
- playa — Western U.S. the sandy, salty, or mud-caked flat floor of a desert basin having interior drainage, usually occupied by a shallow lake during or after prolonged, heavy rains.
- plays — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plaza — a public square or open space in a city or town.
- plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
- pleas — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- pleat — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plena — the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
- plica — Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- ploat — to thrash; beat soundly
- poach — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- poaka — a stilt (bird) native to New Zealand
- poake — a waste matter from the tanning of hides
- pocal — PETRA Operator's CommAnd Language.
- podal — relating to feet
- podia — a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- pofac — A subset of Fortran.
- pohai — a gulf in the Yellow Sea, on the NE coast of China.
- pokal — a large German standing cup of silver, glass, or other material.
- polar — of or relating to the North or South Pole.
- polka — a lively couple dance of Bohemian origin, with music in duple meter.
- ponca — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- ponga — a tall tree fern, Cyathea dealbata, of New Zealand, with large feathery leaves
- pooka — (in folklore) an Irish spirit, mischievous but not malevolent, corresponding to the English Puck.
- poona — a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- poppa — father.
- porae — a large edible sea fish, Nemadactylus douglasi, of New Zealand waters
- poral — of or relating to pores
- porea — Port Office Regional Employees Association
- porta — an aperture in an organ, such as the liver, esp one providing an opening for blood vessels
- potae — a hat
- powan — a freshwater whitefish, Coregonus clupeoides, occurring in some Scottish lakes
- poway — a city in SW California.
- ppaca — The PPACA is a 2010 federal law that reformed some public health insurance programs and parts of the private health insurance industry in the U.S.
- pparc — Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
- pppoa — Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
- prado — an art gallery in Madrid housing an important collection of Spanish paintings
- prae- — pre-
- praha — a city in and the capital of the Czech Republic, in the W central part, on the Vltava: formerly capital of Czechoslovakia.
- prahu — proa.
- praia — a republic consisting of a group of islands (Cape Verde Islands) in the Atlantic, W of Senegal in W Africa: formerly an overseas territory of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 1557 sq. mi. (4033 sq. km). Capital: Praia.
- prana — Yoga, Jainism. the vital principle.
- prang — to collide with; bump into.
- prank — a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
- praos — proa.
- prase — a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- 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.