5-letter words containing p, a
- wasps — a satirical comedy (422 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- waspy — Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. of, relating to, or characteristic of WASPs: a Waspy country club.
- wasup — Alternative form of wassup.
- watap — a thread made by North American Indians from the divided roots of certain conifers and used in weaving and sewing.
- whaps — Plural form of whap.
- whaup — a curlew, Numenius arquata.
- wpqha — Western Pennsylvania Quarter Horse Association
- wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- wrapt — a simple past tense and past participle of wrap.
- yampa — a river in NW Colorado, flowing W into the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- yampy — a foolish person
- yapok — an aquatic Central and South American opossum, Chironectes variegatus (or minimus), having webbed hind feet and a grayish coat.
- yapon — a holly shrub or small tree, Ilex vomitoria, of the southern U.S., having bitter leaves that are sometimes brewed as a tea.
- yappy — to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
- yawps — Plural form of yawp.
- zappa — Frank (1940–93), US rock singer, musician, and songwriter. In 1965, he formed the Mothers of Invention, a group that combined psychedelic rock with elements of jazz and satire. In his later career he often mixed flowing guitar improvisations with scatological humor.
- zappy — energetic, lively, or fast-moving; zippy.
- zoppa — syncopated; stressing a beat that is normally weak
- zupan — The leader of a \u017eupa, or administrative unit, among various South Slavic peoples.
- zuppa — a soup or chowder.