6-letter words containing p, t, e
- muppet — (UK, Australian, slang, pejorative) An incompetent or foolish person.
- n-type — (of a semiconductor) having more conduction electrons than mobile holes
- nipter — a religious ceremony of foot washing
- ophite — a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- optate — (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- optime — (formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos. Compare wrangler (def 2).
- p-type — (of a semiconductor) having a density of mobile holes in excess of that of conduction electrons
- packet — a small group or package of anything: a packet of letters.
- paiute — a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
- palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- palest — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- pallet — a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
- palter — to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- panted — to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
- panter — of or relating to pants: pant cuffs.
- pantie — panties.
- parent — a father or a mother.
- pareto — Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- parget — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- parted — partial; of a part: part owner.
- parter — a person or thing that parts; separator
- pasted — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- pastel — the woad plant.
- paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
- 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.
- patent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patera — a shallow ancient Roman bowl used in rituals
- patier — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- patine — patina.
- patres — dead.
- patted — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- pattée — (of a cross) having triangular arms widening outwards
- patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- patter — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pattle — paddle1 (def 11).
- patzer — a casual, amateurish chess player.
- pdftex — (tool) A modification of TeX to produce PDF output instead of the canonical DVI.
- peanut — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- pecten — Zoology, Anatomy. a comblike part or process. a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- 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.
- pedant — a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
- pedate — having a foot or feet.
- peewit — the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.
- peinct — to paint
- pelite — any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- pellet — a small, rounded or spherical body, as of food or medicine.
- pelmet — a decorative cornice or valance at the head of a window or doorway, used to cover the fastenings from which curtains are hung.
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.