6-letter words containing s, p, e
- 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).
- peipsi — Chudskoye
- peipus — a lake in the N Europe, on the border between Estonia and the W Russian Federation. 93 miles (150 km) long; 356 sq. mi. (920 sq. km).
- peleus — a king of the Myrmidons, the son of Aeacus and father of Achilles.
- 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
- pelles — (in Arthurian legend) the father of Elaine and one of the searchers for the Holy Grail
- 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.
- pelvis — the basinlike cavity in the lower part of the trunk of many vertebrates, formed in humans by the innominate bones, sacrum, etc.
- peneus — ancient name of Salambria.
- penhsi — Benxi.
- pennis — an aluminum coin of Finland until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a markka.
- pensee — a reflection or thought.
- pensil — a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- pensum — a piece of work or a task to be completed, esp a school exercise
- peplos — a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.
- peplus — peplos.
- pepsin — an enzyme, produced in the stomach, that in the presence of hydrochloric acid splits proteins into proteoses and peptones.
- per se — by, of, for, or in itself; intrinsically: This candidate is not a pacifist per se, but he is in favor of peaceful solutions when practicable. Synonyms: innately, inherently, indigenously, fundamentally.
- perdus — hidden; concealed; obscured.
- perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perlis — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- perses — a son of Perseus and Andromeda and the ancestor of the kings of Persia.
- 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.
- persis — an ancient region of SW Iran: homeland of the Achaemenid dynasty
- person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- peruse — to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
- 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
- pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- pestle — a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- phased — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- pheese — a state of edgy or uneasy agitation
- phelps — William Lyon [lahy-uh n] /ˈlaɪ ən/ (Show IPA), 1865–1943, U.S. educator and literary critic.
- 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.
- physed — physical education
- physes — the principle of growth or change in nature.