7-letter words containing p, u, t
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- patulin — a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- pay cut — a decrease in pay or salary
- pay out — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- paystub — A paystub is a piece of paper given to an employee when he or she is paid stating how much money has been earned and how much has been taken from that sum for things such as tax.
- peanuts — 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.
- pectous — of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- peg out — attach by pegs to a line
- pent-up — confined; restrained; not vented or expressed; curbed: pent-up emotions; pent-up rage.
- pentium — (processor) Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency checking. It can execute a maximum of two instructions per cycle. It does pipelined floating-point and performs branch prediction. It has 16 kilobytes of on-chip cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers. It is built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic. Its clock rate is 66MHz, heat dissipation is 16W, integer performance is 64.5 SPECint92, floating-point performance 56.9 SPECfp92. It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number. The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II. The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU: Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III A floating-point division bug was discovered in October 1994.
- peritus — a Catholic theological expert and consultant who gives advice at an ecumenical council of the church
- permute — to alter; change.
- perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- pertuse — punctured or perforated
- petasus — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- petrous — denoting the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- petunia — flowering plant
- photius — a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.
- picquet — a card game played by two persons with a pack of 32 cards, the cards from deuces to sixes being excluded.
- picture — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piculet — any of numerous small, tropical woodpeckers, chiefly of the genus Picumnus, that lack stiffened shafts in the tail feathers.
- pig out — a young swine of either sex, especially a domestic hog, Sus scrofa, weighing less than 120 pounds (220 kg)
- pig-out — an instance of overindulging in eating; food binge.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pilinut — type of nut found in the Philippines
- pin-out — (hardware) (Or "pinout") The allocation of logical functions or signals to the electrical connection points (pins) of an integrated circuit or other component or connector.
- pinetum — an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
- pintubi — an Aboriginal people of the southern border area of Western Australia and the Northern Territory
- piquant — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- piteous — evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- pithful — full of pith; pithy; succinct
- pitiful — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- pituita — thick nasal secretion; phlegm
- pituite — mucus
- plateau — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- plaudit — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- plautus — Titus Maccius [tahy-tuh s mak-see-uh s] /ˈtaɪ təs ˈmæk si əs/ (Show IPA), c254–c184 b.c, Roman dramatist.
- plotful — characterized by or full of plots
- plumate — resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.
- plumcot — a hybrid tree produced by crossing the apricot and the plum.
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
- plummet — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plunket — Saint Oliver. 1629–81, Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr; wrongly executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (1678). Feast day: July 11
- pluteal — relating to a pluteus
- pluteus — the free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva of an echinoid or ophiuroid.
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.