7-letter words containing p, e, n
- penguin — any of several flightless, aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having webbed feet and wings reduced to flippers.
- penicil — a small, brushlike tuft of hairs, as on a caterpillar.
- penis's — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- penname — author's pseudonym
- pennant — a long, tapering flag or burgee of distinctive form and special significance, borne on naval or other vessels and used in signaling or for identification.
- pennate — winged; feathered.
- pennell — Joseph, 1860–1926, U.S. etcher, illustrator, and writer.
- pennied — having or consisting of a penny or pennies
- pennies — a female given name, form of Penelope.
- penning — a small enclosure for domestic animals.
- penrith — a market town in NW England, in Cumbria. Pop: 14 471 (2001)
- penrose — Sir Roger. born 1931, British mathematician and theoretical physicist, noted for his investigation of black holes
- pensees — a collection of notes, essays, etc., dealing with religious and philosophical matters by Blaise Pascal, published posthumously in 1670.
- pensile — hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- pension — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- pensive — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- penster — a writer, esp of trivial things
- pent-up — confined; restrained; not vented or expressed; curbed: pent-up emotions; pent-up rage.
- pentact — a sponge spicule with five rays
- pentane — a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
- pentene — a colourless flammable liquid alkene having several straight-chained isomeric forms, used in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C5H10
- pentice — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- pentito — a person involved in organized crime who offers information to the police in return for immunity from prosecution
- pentium — (processor) Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency checking. It can execute a maximum of two instructions per cycle. It does pipelined floating-point and performs branch prediction. It has 16 kilobytes of on-chip cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers. It is built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic. Its clock rate is 66MHz, heat dissipation is 16W, integer performance is 64.5 SPECint92, floating-point performance 56.9 SPECfp92. It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number. The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II. The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU: Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III A floating-point division bug was discovered in October 1994.
- pentode — a vacuum tube having five electrodes, usually a plate, three grids, and a cathode, within the same envelope.
- pentose — a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 1 0 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- penuche — Also, panocha. Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a fudgelike candy made of brown sugar, butter, and milk, usually with nuts.
- penzias — Arno Allan, born 1933, U.S. astrophysicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in physics 1978.
- peonage — the condition or service of a peon.
- peptone — any of a class of diffusible, soluble substances into which proteins are converted by partial hydrolysis.
- per an. — per annum
- percent — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- percine — a perch-like fish, esp one belonging to the family Percidae
- pereion — (in a crustacean) the thorax.
- perfing — the practice of taking early retirement, with financial compensation, from the police force
- pericon — Argentinian dance
- perigon — an angle of 360°.
- perinde — (in prescriptions) in the same manner as before.
- perinea — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- perjink — prim or finicky
- perking — to become lively, cheerful, or vigorous, as after depression or sickness (usually followed by up): The patients all perked up when we played the piano for them.
- perkins — Frances, 1882–1965, U.S. sociologist: Secretary of Labor 1933–45.
- perlman — Itzhak [ee-tsahk,, it-zahk] /ˈi tsɑk,, ˈɪt zɑk/ (Show IPA), born 1945, U.S. violinist, born in Israel.
- permian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era occurring from about 280 to 230 million years ago and characterized by a profusion of amphibian species.
- peronei — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- perpend — a large stone passing through the entire thickness of a wall.
- perpent — perpend1 .
- perrine — a town in S Florida.
- persant — sharp or stabbing
- persian — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.