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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.
  • pennellJoseph, 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.
  • penziasArno 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.
  • perkinsFrances, 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.
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