6-letter words containing s, p, e, a
- maples — Plural form of maple.
- naples — a region in SW Italy. 5214 sq. mi. (13,505 sq. km). Capital: Naples.
- nappes — Plural form of nappe.
- operas — Plural form of opera.
- 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.
- papers — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- paries — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parkes — Sir Henry. 1815–96, Australian journalist and politician born in England, five times premier of New South Wales, advocate of free trade and Federation, and a founder of the public education system
- parsec — a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- parsee — an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- parser — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- pasear — to go for a rambling walk or paseo
- passed — having completed the act of passing.
- passel — a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries.
- passer — a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
- 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.
- patres — dead.
- paused — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- pavese — Cesare (ˈtʃeːzare). 1908–50, Italian writer and translator. His works include collections of poems, such as Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi (1953), short stories, such as the collection Notte di festa (1953), and the novel La Luna e i falò (1950)
- pavise — a large oblong shield of the late 14th through the early 16th centuries, often covering the entire body and used especially by archers and soldiers of the infantry.
- pearls — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearse — Patrick (Henry), Irish name Pádraic. 1879–1916, Irish nationalist, who planned and led the Easter Rising (1916): executed by the British
- peasen — bill3 (def 4).
- pelias — a son of Poseidon and Tyro. He feared his nephew Jason and sent him to recover the Golden Fleece, hoping he would not return
- persia — Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- pesach — Passover (def 1).
- pesade — a maneuver in which the horse is made to rear, keeping its hind legs stationary and its forelegs drawn in.
- pesaro — a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- peseta — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- pesewa — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Ghana, the 100th part of a cedi.
- pessoa — Fernando. 1888–1935, Portuguese poet, who ascribed much of his work to three imaginary poets, Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, and Ricardo Reis
- phased — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phrase — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- pietas — a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prases — a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- praxes — practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- prespa — Lake, a lake on the borders of E Albania, SW Macedonia, and N Greece: drains underground NW to Lake Ohrid. 112 sq. mi. (290 sq. km).
- rapers — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- rasped — to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
- rasper — a person or thing that rasps.
- repass — to pass (a law, etc) again
- repast — a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating: to eat a light repast.
- sample — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- sapele — Also called aboudikro. the mahoganylike wood of any of several African trees of the genus Entandrophragma, used for making furniture.