4-letter words containing p, a
- nape — the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- napo — a South American river flowing from central Ecuador through NE Peru to the Amazon River. about 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- naps — Plural form of nap.
- nbpa — National Basketball Players Association
- neap — designating tides midway between spring tides that attain the least height.
- nipa — a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- nmpa — National Master Processing Agreement
- nyap — (language) An early system on the IBM 704.
- nzpa — New Zealand Press Association
- olap — On-Line Analytical Processing
- opac — Online Public Access Catalog
- opah — a large, deep-bodied, brilliantly colored, oceanic food fish, Lampris regius.
- opal — a female given name.
- opan — Oregon Public Affairs Network
- opia — Plural form of opium.
- opra — Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority
- oupa — grandfather, esp in titular use with surname
- pa's — father.
- paal — a stake driven into the ground
- paba — para-aminobenzoic acid.
- pabx — (communications) (PABX) A telephone exchange operated within an organisation, used for switching calls between internal lines and between internal and PSTN lines. In contrast to a PMBX, a PABX can route calls without manual intervention, based entirely on the number dialed. Not all PABXs can route external calls to internal numbers automatically however.
- paca — a large, white-spotted, almost tailless rodent, Agouti paca, of Central and South America, having features resembling a guinea pig and rabbit: valued as food.
- pace — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
- pack — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- paco — an alpaca
- pact — an agreement, covenant, or compact: We made a pact not to argue any more.
- pacy — You use pacy to describe someone, especially a sports player, who has the ability to move very quickly.
- pada — a unit of Sanskrit or Vedic poetic meter, a series of light and heavy syllables, usually one quarter of a four-line stanza.
- paez — José Antonio [haw-se ahn-taw-nyaw] /hɔˈsɛ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1790–1873, Venezuelan revolutionary and political leader: president 1831–35, 1839–43; dictator 1861–63.
- page — Thomas Nelson, 1853–1922, U.S. novelist and diplomat.
- paho — a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- paik — a hard blow to the body
- pail — bucket.
- pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- pair — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- pais — outside of court; without legal proceedings.
- paki — a contemptuous term used to refer to a Pakistani, especially one who has emigrated to Britain.
- pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- pali — the Prakrit language of the Buddhist scriptures.
- pall — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- palm — any of numerous plants of the family Palmae, most species being tall, unbranched trees surmounted by a crown of large pinnate or palmately cleft leaves. Compare palm family.
- palp — a palpus.
- paly — pale.
- pan- — pan- is added to the beginning of adjectives and nouns to form other adjectives and nouns that describe something as being connected with all places or people of a particular kind.
- pand — drapery concealing the legs of a bed
- pane — (of food) prepared with bread crumbs; breaded.
- pang — a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
- pans — an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or to the safety of one of its passengers.
- pant — to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.