4-letter words starting with p
- phot — a unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter. Abbreviation: ph.
- phse — personal, social, and health education
- phub — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- phut — a representation of a muffled explosive sound
- piaf — Edith (Edith Giovanna Gassion) 1914–63, French singer.
- pial — of or relating to the pia mater.
- pian — yaws.
- piat — a spring-powered British antitank weapon of World War II, mounted on a tripod and capable of firing a 2½-pound (1-kg) bomb up to 350 yards (320 meters).
- pica — an abnormal appetite or craving for substances that are not fit to eat, as chalk or clay, common in malnutrition, pregnancy, etc.
- pice — a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna. Compare pie5 .
- pich — a West Indian shrub or small tree, Calliandra portoricensis, of the legume family, having numerous leaflets and white, night-blooming, flowers.
- pick — to cast (a shuttle).
- picl — Language on Ncube or iPSC machines?
- pics — Platform for Internet Content Selection
- pict — a member of an ancient people of uncertain origin who inhabited parts of northern Britain, fought against the Romans, and in the 9th century a.d. united with the Scots.
- pied — having patches of two or more colors, as various birds and other animals: a pied horse.
- pien — arris.
- pier — a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- pies — a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna.
- piet — Scot. a magpie.
- pigs — an earthenware crock, pot, pitcher, or jar.
- pika — any of several small, brown to gray tailless mammals of the genus Ochotona, resembling rabbits with short ears and legs and inhabiting western mountains of North America and parts of eastern Europe and Asia.
- pike — any of several large, slender, voracious freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, having a long, flat snout: the blue pike of the Great Lakes is now extinct.
- piki — a type of flat dry bread that is baked in very thin sheets which are then rolled up together, made by the Hopi people from blue cornmeal
- pila — an anatomical structure like a pillar in form
- pile — the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
- pili — a Philippine tree, Canarium ovatum, the edible seeds of which taste like a sweet almond.
- pill — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- pils — a type of lager-like beer
- pily — (of a fabric) having a pile; like wool or pile
- pima — a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- pimp — a person, especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; pander; procurer.
- pina — pineapple.
- pine — Archaic. painful longing.
- ping — to produce a sharp sound like that of a bullet striking a sheet of metal.
- pink — a vessel with a pink stern.
- pins — a number assigned to an individual, used to establish identity in order to gain access to a computer system via an automatic teller machine, a point-of-sale terminal, or other device.
- pint — a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- piny — abounding in or covered with pine trees: piny hillsides.
- pion — the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- pipa — a short-necked fretted lute of Chinese origin.
- pipe — a large cask, of varying capacity, especially for wine or oil.
- pipi — an edible bivalve of eastern Australia, Plebidonax deltoides.
- pipy — pipelike; tubular.
- pire — Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- pirl — Pattern Information Retrieval Language. A language for digraph manipulation, embeddable in Fortran or ALGOL, for IBM 7094.
- pirn — a fishing reel.
- piro — piroplasmosis.
- pisa — a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- pise — rammed earth.