4-letter words containing p, i
- pirl — Pattern Information Retrieval Language. A language for digraph manipulation, embeddable in Fortran or ALGOL, for IBM 7094.
- pirn — a fishing reel.
- piro — piroplasmosis.
- pisa — a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- pise — rammed earth.
- pish — an exclamation of “pish!”.
- piso — (in the Philippines) a peso
- piss — urine.
- pita — a round, flat Middle Eastern bread that is often filled with meat, peppers, etc., to make a sandwich.
- pith — Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- piti — PITI is the components of a mortgage payment.
- pits — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
- pitt — William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- pity — sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy: to feel pity for astarving child.
- pium — a type of small, black, stinging fly from S America
- pius — (Eugenio Pacelli) 1876–1958, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1939–58.
- pize — to strike (someone a blow)
- pizi — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
- plie — a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- plim — full or plump
- poil — a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.
- pori — a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- prie — to try, test, or taste.
- prig — Chiefly British. a thief.
- prii — a brand of hybrid car, one of the first commercially successful, that runs at lower speeds on an electric motor powered by a battery pack, and at higher speeds on a gasoline engine, which can also recharge the battery.
- prim — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- prin — principal
- prix — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- psia — pounds per square inch, absolute
- psid — pounds per square inch, differential
- psig — pounds per square inch, gauge
- psis — the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- psni — Police Service of Northern Ireland, established in 2000
- ptui — used to suggest the sound of spitting
- puir — poor.
- puli — one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- puri — poori.
- pyic — an albuminous constituent of pus.
- pyin — an albuminous constituent of pus.
- quip — a clever or witty remark or comment.
- ripe — Réseaux IP Européens
- ripp — a handful of grain
- risp — to rasp or to grate
- sapi — 1. (programming) Speech Application Programming Interface. 2. (programming) Scheduling Application Programming Interface. 3. (networking) Service Access Point Identifier.
- scpi — Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
- ship — a romantic relationship between fictional characters, especially one that people discuss, write about, or take an interest in, whether or not the romance actually exists in the original book, show, etc.: popular ships in fan fiction.
- simp — a fool; simpleton.
- siop — (formerly) the secret and central U.S. contingency plan for waging a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
- sipb — Student Information Processing Board, MIT.
- sipe — (of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.