5-letter words containing pa
- spaak — Paul Henri [pawl hen-ree;; French pawl ahn-ree] /pɔl ˈhɛn ri;; French pɔl ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1889–1972, Belgian statesman: prime minister of Belgium, 1938–39, 1946–49; first president of the General Assembly of the United Nations 1946–47; secretary-general of NATO 1957–61.
- space — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spacy — spaced-out (def 2).
- spade — a black figure shaped like an inverted heart and with a short stem at the cusp opposite the point, used on playing cards.
- spado — Civil Law. an impotent person; someone unable to procreate.
- spaed — to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- spaer — to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- spahi — one of a body of native Algerian cavalry in the French service.
- spahn — Warren, 1921–2003, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- spain — a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- spake — a simple past tense of speak.
- spall — a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
- spalt — a silly person
- spane — a chip of wood
- spang — directly, exactly: The bullet landed spang on target.
- spank — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
- sparc — 1. (processor) Scalable Processor ARChitecture. 2. (database) ANSI/SPARC Architecture.
- spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spark — Muriel (Sarah) (Camberg) 1918–2006, British novelist and writer, born in Scotland.
- spart — a type of grass or esparto
- spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- spate — a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words.
- spats — the spawn of an oyster or similar shellfish.
- spawl — spittle
- spawn — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- spazz — an awkward or clumsy person.
- stipa — a member of a genus of perennial grasses in the subfamily Pooideae
- stupa — a monumental pile of earth or other material, in memory of Buddha or a Buddhist saint, and commemorating some event or marking a sacred spot.
- supac — Student Union Project Advisory Committee
- talpa — a member of a genus of mole found in Europe and Western Asia, for example the common European mole, Talpa europaea
- tampa — a seaport in W Florida, on Tampa Bay: fishing resort.
- tapas — the bark of the paper mulberry.
- tepal — one of the divisions of a flower perianth, especially one that is not clearly differentiated into petals and sepals, as in lilies and tulips.
- topaz — a mineral, a fluosilicate of aluminum, usually occurring in prismatic orthorhombic crystals of various colors, and used as a gem.
- tulpa — a being or object that is created in the imagination by visualization techniques such as in Tibetan mysticism
- typal — of, relating to, or constituting a type.
- ulpan — an institute or school for intensive study of Hebrew, especially by immigrants to Israel.
- unpay — to not pay
- upaya — any device, as a koan, used for purposes of instruction.
- vespa — Very Efficient Speculative Parallel Architecture
- vimpa — a silk veil falling over the shoulders and extending down the arms and over the hands, worn by acolytes who carry the miter and crosier at a Pontifical Mass.
- yampa — a river in NW Colorado, flowing W into the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- zappa — Frank (1940–93), US rock singer, musician, and songwriter. In 1965, he formed the Mothers of Invention, a group that combined psychedelic rock with elements of jazz and satire. In his later career he often mixed flowing guitar improvisations with scatological humor.
- zoppa — syncopated; stressing a beat that is normally weak
- zupan — The leader of a \u017eupa, or administrative unit, among various South Slavic peoples.
- zuppa — a soup or chowder.