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6-letter words containing s, p, i

  • optics — the eye.
  • paisan — compatriot.
  • palais — French. a palace, especially a French government or municipal building.
  • palish — somewhat pale.
  • pamirs — the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
  • panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
  • pansil — Pancha Sila.
  • papish — a Roman Catholic
  • papism — Roman Catholicism.
  • papist — a Roman Catholic.
  • paries — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
  • parish — an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
  • parnis — Mollie (Mollie Parnis Livingston) 1905–1992, U.S. fashion designer.
  • partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
  • parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.
  • pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
  • passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
  • 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.
  • pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
  • pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
  • patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
  • 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.
  • pc-ism — /P-C-izm/ A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g. by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory or using hard timing loops. Compare ill-behaved, vaxism, Unixism.
  • pclips — Parallel CLIPS - U Lowell. Concurrent independent CLIPS expert systems. They use 'rassert' (remote assert) to enter facts into each other's database. "PCLIPS: A Distributed Expert System Environment", R. Miller, CLIPS Users Group Conf, Aug 1990. E-mail: <[email protected]>(?).
  • 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).
  • 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
  • pelvis — the basinlike cavity in the lower part of the trunk of many vertebrates, formed in humans by the innominate bones, sacrum, etc.
  • penhsi — Benxi.
  • pennis — an aluminum coin of Finland until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a markka.
  • pensil — a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
  • pepsin — an enzyme, produced in the stomach, that in the presence of hydrochloric acid splits proteins into proteoses and peptones.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • phasic — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • phasis — a manner, stage, or aspect of being; phase.
  • phocis — an ancient district in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth: site of Delphic oracle.
  • physic — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
  • physio — physical therapy
  • physis — the principle of growth or change in nature.
  • pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • pieris — any plant of a genus, Pieris, of American and Asiatic shrubs, esp P. formosa forrestii, grown for the bright red colour of its young foliage: family Ericaceae
  • pietas — a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
  • pignus — property held as security for a debt.
  • pigsny — a term of affection, esp for a girl or young woman
  • pigsty — pigpen.
  • pileus — Mycology. the horizontal portion of a mushroom, bearing gills, tubes, etc., on its underside; a cap.
  • pilies — a Philippine tree, Canarium ovatum, the edible seeds of which taste like a sweet almond.
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