6-letter words containing s, o, p
- opulus — the guelder rose
- osprey — Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.
- padkos — snacks and provisions for a journey
- paphos — an ancient city in SW Cyprus.
- parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- pas op — beware
- pashto — an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- pasos2 — version: Alpha parts: Compiler, run-time library author: Willem Jan Withagen <[email protected]> how to get: ftp://ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl/pub/src/pascal/pasos2*. A PASCAL/i386 compiler which generates code for OS/2 and DOS. It uses EMX as DOS extender and GNU/GAS, MASM or TASM as assembler. 1993-12-17
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- 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.
- pelops — Classical Mythology. a son of Tantalus and Dione, slaughtered by his father and served to the Olympians as food; Hermes restored him to life and he later ruled over southern Greece, which was called Peloponnesus after him.
- peplos — a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.
- person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- pesaro — a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- pessoa — Fernando. 1888–1935, Portuguese poet, who ascribed much of his work to three imaginary poets, Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, and Ricardo Reis
- pharos — a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- phasor — a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- phobos — Also, Phobus [foh-buh s] /ˈfoʊ bəs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a son and attendant of Ares and the personification of a fear held to possess armies and cause their defeat.
- phobus — Also, Phobus [foh-buh s] /ˈfoʊ bəs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a son and attendant of Ares and the personification of a fear held to possess armies and cause their defeat.
- phocis — an ancient district in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth: site of Delphic oracle.
- phocus — An object-oriented Prolog-like language.
- pholas — a type of bivalve mollusc that is a member of the genus Pholas and family Pholadidae
- pholus — a large astronomical object, some 2000 km in diameter, discovered in 1991. Its elliptical orbit around the earth, between the orbits of Neptune and Saturn, has a period of 93 years. It has been classified as an asteroid although it lies outside the main asteroid belt
- photos — photograph.
- physio — physical therapy
- pilons — something extra; lagniappe.
- pilose — covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
- pilous — pilose.
- piniós — river in Thessaly, E Greece, flowing eastward to the Gulf of Salonika: 125 mi (201 km)
- pisano — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- 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
- 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.
- planos — a town in N Texas.
- podsol — spodosol.
- points — the two electrical contacts that make or break the current flow in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine
- poised — (of a person) composed, dignified, and self-assured.
- poiser — a person or thing that poises.
- poisha — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Bangladesh, the 100th part of a taka.
- poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- poleis — an ancient Greek city-state.
- polish — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- pollys — a female given name, form of Mary.
- polska — Polish name of Poland.
- polyps — Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- pontus — an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- popish — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Roman Catholic Church.