6-letter words containing par
- parlay — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- parled — talk; parley.
- parley — a discussion or conference.
- parlog — Clark & Gregory, Imperial College 1983. An AND-parallel Prolog, with guards and committed choice nondeterminism (don't care nondeterminism). Shallow backtracking only. Implementations: MacParlog and PC-Parlog from Parallel Logic Programming Ltd., Box 49 Twickenham TW2 5PH, UK. See also SPM.
- parlor — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parmod — "Parallel Programming with ParMod", S. Eichholz, Proc 1987 Intl Conf on Parallel Proc, pp.377-380.
- parnis — Mollie (Mollie Parnis Livingston) 1905–1992, U.S. fashion designer.
- parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parole — language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
- parore — a dark brownish-green fish, Girella tricuspidata of coastal and estuarine waters in New Zealand's North Island and Australia
- parpen — perpend1 .
- parran — Thomas, Jr. 1892–1968, U.S. public health official.
- parred — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- parrel — Nautical. a sliding ring or collar of rope, wood, or metal that confines a yard or the jaws of a gaff to the mast but allows vertical movement.
- parrot — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- 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.
- parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- parsva — a semilegendary Tirthankara of the 8th century b.c., said to have been born after a series of pious incarnations in each of which he was killed by an antagonist who had originally been his elder brother: the twenty-third Tirthankara.
- partan — a crab.
- parted — partial; of a part: part owner.
- parter — a person or thing that parts; separator
- partim — in part
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- partly — in part; to some extent or degree; partially; not wholly: His statement is partly true.
- parton — a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- parula — any of several American wood warblers of the genus Parula, especially P. americana (northern parula) having bluish plumage with a yellow throat and breast.
- parure — a matching set of jewels or ornaments.
- parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.
- popart — A grammar-driven programming environment generator. Uses Paddle.
- repark — to park (a vehicle) again
- secpar — (in astronomy) a unit of distance equivalent to 3.262 light years
- sippar — an ancient Babylonian city on the Euphrates, in SE Iraq.
- spared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spares — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- sparge — a sprinkling.
- sparid — any of numerous fishes of the family Sparidae, chiefly inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas, comprising the porgies, the scups, etc.
- sparke — a battle-axe
- sparks — an elegant or foppish young man.
- sparky — emitting or producing sparks.
- sparry — of or relating to mineral spar.
- sparse — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- sparta — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- sparth — a type of battle-axe
- sparti — Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- subpar — below an average, usual, or normal level, quality, or the like; below par: This month his performance has been subpar.
- unspar — to open or remove a barricade from