6-letter words containing p, e, i
- illipe — a tropical Asian tree of the family Sapotaceae
- impale — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- impave — (archaic, poetic) To pave.
- impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- impeed — Obsolete form of impede.
- impels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impel.
- impend — to be imminent; be about to happen.
- impest — (obsolete, transitive) To afflict with pestilence.
- imphee — an African sorghum plant that yields a sweet juice
- impire — Obsolete form of umpire.
- implex — the point where muscles are attached to the integument of an arthropod
- impone — to wager; stake.
- impose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impune — Unpunished.
- impure — not pure; mixed with extraneous matter, especially of an inferior or contaminating nature: impure water and air.
- impute — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- incept — to take in; ingest.
- instep — the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- ipecac — the dried root of a shrubby South American plant, Cephaelis ipecacuanha, of the madder family.
- iphone — Alternative case form of iPhone.
- jimper — slender; trim; delicate.
- kelpie — Australian kelpie.
- kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- kewpie — A type of doll characterized by a large head, big eyes, chubby cheeks, and a curl or topknot on top of its head.
- kipped — Simple past tense and past participle of kip.
- kippen — A piece of small firewood or kindling.
- kipper — a young male Aborigine, usually 14 to 16 years old, who has recently undergone his tribal initiation rite.
- kipsie — Alternative spelling of kipsy.
- klippe — Numismatics. a square or lozenge-shaped coin.
- koppie — Alternative form of kopje.
- kuiper — Gerard Peter, 1905–73, U.S. astronomer, born in the Netherlands.
- laipse — to beat soundly
- lappie — a rag or cloth
- leipoa — mallee fowl.
- leptin — a hormone that is thought to suppress appetite and speed up metabolism.
- lie up — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- limdep — A linear programming language used by economists.
- limped — to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
- limper — lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame: a limp body.
- limpet — any of various marine gastropods with a low conical shell open beneath, often browsing on rocks at the shoreline and adhering when disturbed.
- lineup — a particular order or disposition of persons or things as arranged or drawn up for action, inspection, etc.
- lipase — any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- lipped — of or relating to the lips or a lip: lip ointment.
- lippen — to trust (a person).
- lipper — a slightly rough or ripply surface on a body of water.
- lisped — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lisper — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
- magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
- megilp — a jellylike vehicle used in oil paints and usually consisting of linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish.