5-letter words containing p, s, e
- phase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- piers — a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- piles — a hemorrhoid.
- pines — Archaic. painful longing.
- pipes — a large cask, of varying capacity, especially for wine or oil.
- piste — a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- pixes — Ecclesiastical. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
- pleas — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- plebs — a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
- plies — a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- poesy — the work or the art of poetic composition.
- poise — a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P.
- pomes — the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- pones — the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
- posed — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- posen — German name of Poznań.
- poser — wannabe, pretentious person
- poset — partially ordered set
- posey — characteristic of or being a poser, especially in being trendy or fashionable in a superficial way.
- posse — posse comitatus.
- prase — a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- prees — a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- pres. — President
- presa — a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- prese — a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
- prest — ready.
- preys — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- pries — to try, test, or taste.
- prise — pry2 .
- prose — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- pseud — a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
- psoae — either of two muscles, one on each side of the loin, extending internally from the sides of the spinal column to the upper end of the femur, which assist in flexing and rotating the thigh and flexing the trunk on the pelvis.
- pubes — the lower part of the abdomen, especially the region between the right and left iliac regions.
- pules — to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- pulse — the edible seeds of certain leguminous plants, as peas, beans, or lentils.
- purse — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- puses — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- pusey — Edward Bouverie [boo-vuh-ree] /ˈbu və ri/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, English clergyman.
- pyxes — Ecclesiastical. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
- salep — a starchy, demulcent drug or foodstuff consisting of the dried tubers of certain orchids.
- scape — Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- scelp — to slap, smack, or strike (someone), especially on the buttocks; spank.
- scope — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- seepy — (especially of ground, a plot of land, or the like) soaked or oozing with water; not drained.
- sepad — to suppose
- sepal — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- sepia — a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- sepik — a river in N Papua New Guinea, flowing E to the Bismarck Sea. 700 miles (1126 km) long.
- sepoy — (formerly, in India) a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, especially of the British.