7-letter words containing pe
- peabody — Elizabeth Palmer, 1804–94, U.S. educator and reformer: founded the first kindergarten in the U.S.
- peacoat — pea jacket.
- peacock — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peafowl — any of several gallinaceous birds of the genera Pavo, of India, Sri Lanka, southeastern Asia, and the East Indies, and Afropavo, of Africa.
- peakish — to become weak, thin, and sickly.
- pealing — a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- peanuts — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- pearler — a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object: valued as a gem when lustrous and finely colored. Compare cultured pearl.
- pearlin — a type of lace used to trim clothes
- pearson — Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- peasant — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- peatary — an area covered with peat; peat bog
- peatier — of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.
- peatman — a person who sells peat
- pebrine — an infectious disease of silkworms, characterized by a black spotting of the integument and by stunted growth, caused by the protozoan Nosema bomycis.
- peccant — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- peccary — any of several piglike hoofed mammals of the genus Tayassu, of North and South America, as T. tajacu (collared peccary, or javelina) having a dark gray coat with a white collar.
- peccavi — a confession of guilt or sin.
- pechora — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1110 miles (1785 km) long.
- peck at — bird: poke with beak
- pecking — to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.
- peckish — somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
- pectase — an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- pectate — a salt or ester of pectic acid.
- pectize — to change into a jelly; gel
- pectose — protopectin.
- pectous — of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- pedagog — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- peddler — a person who sells from door to door or in the street.
- pedesis — the random motion of particles in a liquid or gas; Brownian motion
- pedetic — of or relating to Brownian motion
- pedicab — (especially in Southeast Asia) a three-wheeled public conveyance operated by pedals, typically one having a hooded cab for two passengers mounted behind the driver.
- pedicel — Botany. a small stalk. an ultimate division of a common peduncle. one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- pedicle — a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
- pedlary — peddlery.
- pedlery — peddlery.
- pedocal — a soil rich in carbonates, especially those of lime.
- pedrail — a type of wheel designed for use on rough terrain, consisting of a chain around the wheel with flat discs attached to the chain
- pedrero — a type of short-barrelled cannon used to fire stones, nails, broken-iron, etc
- pedro i — (Dom Pedro) 1798–1834, king of Portugal (1826, as Pedro IV) and first emperor of Brazil 1822–31.
- pee dee — a river flowing through central North Carolina and NE South Carolina into the Atlantic. 435 miles (700 km) long.
- peebeen — a large hardwood evergreen tree (Syncarpia hilli) of the myrtle family, native to Australia
- peebles — a historic county in S Scotland.
- peeking — to look or glance quickly or furtively, especially through a small opening or from a concealed location; peep; peer.
- peeling — the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- peepers — a person who peeps in an abnormally prying manner; a voyeur.
- peeping — to utter the short, shrill little cry of a young bird, a mouse, etc.; cheep; squeak.
- peeptoe — denoting a shoe or sandal in which the toe is not covered
- peerage — the body of peers of a country or state.
- peeress — the wife or widow of a peer.