6-letter words containing p, t, o
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patho- — disease
- pathol — pathological
- pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- patmos — one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patron — (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
- patton — Charley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
- paxton — Sir Joseph, 1801–65, English horticulturist and architect.
- payout — an act or instance of paying, expending, or disbursing.
- payton — Walter ("Sweetness") 1954–99, U.S. football player.
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- pequot — a member of a powerful tribe of Algonquian-speaking Indians of Connecticut that was essentially destroyed in the Pequot War.
- perrot — Nicolas [nik-uh-luh s;; French nee-kaw-lah] /ˈnɪk ə ləs;; French ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1644–1717, North American fur trader and explorer in the Great Lakes region, born in France.
- petofi — Sándor [shahn-dawr] /ˈʃɑn dɔr/ (Show IPA), (Sándor Petrovics) 1823–49, Hungarian poet and patriot.
- petro- — indicating stone or rock
- petrol — British. gasoline.
- peyote — hallucinogen
- pforth — (language) A portable (hence the "p") ANS-standard Forth implemented in ANSI C. Phil Burk initially began developing pForth in 1994 to support ASIC development at 3DO.
- photic — of or relating to light.
- photo- — Photo- is added to nouns and adjectives in order to form other nouns and adjectives which refer or relate to photography, or to light.
- photog — a photographer.
- photon — a quantum of electromagnetic radiation, usually considered as an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of one. Symbol: γ.
- photos — photograph.
- phyto- — indicating a plant or vegetation
- phytol — a hydrophobic alcohol, C 2 0 H 4 0 O, that occurs esterified as a side chain in the chlorophyll molecule.
- phyton — the smallest part of a stem, root, or leaf, that, when removed from a plant, may grow into a new plant.
- picote — ornamented or embroidered with picots
- pictor — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Dorado and Carina
- pigout — a meal eaten in excess or large amounts
- piloti — a column of iron, steel, or reinforced concrete supporting a building above an open ground level.
- piolet — an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- pioted — pied
- pistol — a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- pistou — a type of sauce from Provence, made from olive oil, basil, garlic, tomatoes, and cheese
- pithoi — a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- pithom — one of the two cities built by Israelite slaves in Egypt. Ex. 1:11.
- pithos — a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- platon — Distributed language based on asynchronous message passing.
- plokta — /plok't*/ Press Lots Of Keys To Abort. To press random keys in an attempt to get some response from the system. One might plokta when the abort procedure for a program is not known, or when trying to figure out if the system is just sluggish or really hung. Plokta can also be used while trying to figure out any unknown key sequence for a particular operation. Someone going into "plokta mode" usually places both hands flat on the keyboard and mashes them down, hoping for some useful response. A slightly more directed form of plokta can often be seen in mail messages or Usenet articles from new users - the text might end with ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help as the user vainly tries to find the right exit sequence, with the incorrect tries piling up at the end of the message.
- plotty — characterized by the intricacies or complications of a plot or intrigue: a plotty novel whose narrative is hard to follow.
- pluton — any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- podite — an arthropod limb.
- poetic — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- poetry — the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
- pointe — the tip of the toe.
- points — the two electrical contacts that make or break the current flow in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine