4-letter words starting with p
- pish — an exclamation of “pish!”.
- piso — (in the Philippines) a peso
- piss — urine.
- pita — a round, flat Middle Eastern bread that is often filled with meat, peppers, etc., to make a sandwich.
- pith — Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- piti — PITI is the components of a mortgage payment.
- pits — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
- pitt — William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
- pity — sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy: to feel pity for astarving child.
- pium — a type of small, black, stinging fly from S America
- pius — (Eugenio Pacelli) 1876–1958, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1939–58.
- pize — to strike (someone a blow)
- pizi — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
- pkg. — package.
- pkwy — Parkway
- pl-6 — (language) A PL/I-like system language for the Honeywell operating system, CP-6.
- pl.8 — A systems dialect of PL/I, developed originally for the IBM 801 RISC minicomputer, later used internally for IBM RT and R/6000 development.
- pl/1 — Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- plan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- plat — a plait or braid.
- play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plea — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- pleb — a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
- pled — a simple past tense and past participle of plead.
- plew — a beaver skin, especially one of prime quality.
- plex — a shortened form of multiplex
- plie — a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- plim — full or plump
- plmk — (chat) please let me know.
- plod — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- plop — to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water: A frog plopped into the pond.
- plot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- plow — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ploy — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- plug — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
- plum — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- plus — more by the addition of; increased by: ten plus two is twelve.
- pmbx — Private Manual Branch eXchange
- pmqs — (in the UK) Prime Minister's questions
- pndb — perceived noise decibel
- pneu — Parents National Education Union
- pnyx — a hill in Athens, Greece, near the Acropolis: the place of assembly in ancient Athens.
- po'd — pissed off.
- pock — a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
- poco — somewhat; rather: poco presto.
- pod- — podo-
- poed — very angry.
- poem — a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- poep — an emission of intestinal gas from the anus
- poet — a person who composes poetry.