5-letter words containing pe
- shape — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
- siped — (of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- siper — (of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- skype — a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the internet
- slipe — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- slope — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- slype — a covered passage, especially one from the transept of a cathedral to the chapter house.
- snipe — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- soper — Donald (Oliver), Baron. 1903–98, British Methodist minister and publicist, noted esp for his pacifist convictions. His books include All His Grace (1953) and Calling for Action (1984)
- speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spean — to wean.
- spear — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- specd — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- speck — a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies: Specks of soot on the window sill.
- specs — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- spect — single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- speed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- speel — a splinter of wood
- speer — Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- speir — to ask; inquire
- speke — John Hanning [han-ing] /ˈhæn ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1827–64, English explorer in Africa.
- speld — a spark or splinter
- spelk — a splinter of wood
- spell — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
- spelt — a simple past tense and past participle of spell1 .
- spend — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- spent — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- speos — a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- sperm — semen.
- speug — a sparrow
- spewy — marshy
- stipe — Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- stope — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- stupe — a stupid person.
- super — Informal. a superintendent, especially of an apartment house. supermarket. supernumerary. supervisor.
- suppe — Franz von [frahnts fuh n] /frɑnts fən/ (Show IPA), 1819–95, Austrian composer.
- swipe — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- taped — a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- tapen — made or composed of tape
- taper — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tapet — an example of tapestry
- taupe — a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
- tempe — Vale of, a valley in E Greece, in Thessaly, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa.
- tepee — a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- toped — to drink alcoholic liquor habitually and to excess.
- topee — (in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- toper — a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- tripe — the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- trope — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- types — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.