6-letter words containing p, i
- papain — Biochemistry. a proteolytic enzyme found in the fruit of the papaya tree, Carica papaya.
- papish — a Roman Catholic
- papism — Roman Catholicism.
- papist — a Roman Catholic.
- pardie — verily; indeed
- pariah — an outcast.
- parial — belonging to a pair
- parian — of or relating to Paros, noted for its white marble.
- parica — a snuff used by certain Indians of South America containing dimethyltryptamine and other hallucinogenic agents, obtained from the seeds of the tree Piptadenia peregrina.
- paries — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- paring — the act of a person or thing that pares.
- parish — an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
- parity — the condition or fact of having borne offspring.
- parkie — a park keeper
- parkin — (in Britain and New Zealand) a moist spicy ginger cake usually containing oatmeal
- parnis — Mollie (Mollie Parnis Livingston) 1905–1992, U.S. fashion designer.
- partim — in part
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.
- pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
- passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- pastie — /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare tits on a keyboard.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- pathic — a catamite
- patier — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- patina — a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.
- patine — patina.
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- patri- — father
- patrix — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patwin — a member of a North American Indian people of the western Sacramento River valley in California.
- paul i — died a.d. 767, pope 757–767.
- paulin — a tarpaulin
- paving — Southern Louisiana. a paved road.
- pavior — a person that paves; paver.
- pavise — a large oblong shield of the late 14th through the early 16th centuries, often covering the entire body and used especially by archers and soldiers of the infantry.
- pawing — the foot of an animal having claws.
- pay in — a deposit in an account.
- pay-in — a deposit in an account.
- paying — work: that is paid
- paynim — a pagan or heathen.
- pc-ism — /P-C-izm/ A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g. by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory or using hard timing loops. Compare ill-behaved, vaxism, Unixism.
- pclips — Parallel CLIPS - U Lowell. Concurrent independent CLIPS expert systems. They use 'rassert' (remote assert) to enter facts into each other's database. "PCLIPS: A Distributed Expert System Environment", R. Miller, CLIPS Users Group Conf, Aug 1990. E-mail: <[email protected]>(?).
- pcmcia — (body, standard) Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. (Or People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms).
- pectic — pertaining to pectin.
- pectin — a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- pedion — a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- peeing — to urinate.
- peerie — a spinning top