5-letter words starting with p
- patsy — a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker.
- patte — (formerly) a band or strap for fastening a coat or other garment
- patti — Adelina [ah-de-lee-nah] /ˌɑ dɛˈli nɑ/ (Show IPA), (Adela Juana Maria Patti) 1843–1919, Italian operatic soprano, born in Spain.
- patty — any item of food covered with dough, batter, etc., and fried or baked: oyster patties.
- paula — a female given name: derived from Paul.
- pauli — Wolfgang [woo lf-gang;; German vawlf-gahng] /ˈwʊlf gæŋ;; German ˈvɔlf gɑŋ/ (Show IPA), 1900–58, Austrian physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1945.
- pause — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- pavan — a stately dance dating from the 16th century.
- paved — (of a road, path, etc) covered with a firm surface suitable for travel, as with paving stones or concrete
- paver — a person or thing that paves.
- pavia — a city in N Italy, S of Milan: Charles V captured Francis I here.
- pavid — timid; afraid; fearful; frightened.
- pavin — pavane.
- pavis — a large oblong shield of the late 14th through the early 16th centuries, often covering the entire body and used especially by archers and soldiers of the infantry.
- pawed — the foot of an animal having claws.
- pawer — the foot of an animal having claws.
- pawky — cunning; sly.
- paxes — the Roman goddess of peace.
- paxos — one of the Ionian Islands, off the NW coast of Greece. 7 sq. mi. (18 sq. km).
- payed — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
- payee — a person to whom a check, money, etc., is payable.
- payer — the act of paying or being paid; payment.
- payne — John Howard, 1791–1852, U.S. actor and dramatist.
- payor — A payor is a person who makes a payment.
- pbcak — PEBCAK
- pbkac — PEBCAK
- pbook — a printed book. Compare e-book.
- pc at — IBM PC AT
- pc-rt — (computer) An incorrect name for the RT-PC.
- pc200 — Sinclair PC200
- pccts — Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set
- pdksh — Version 4.9 interpreter Simon J. Gerraty <[email protected]> comp.sources.misc volume 4 It is not intended to be the ultimate shell but rather a usable ksh work alike. conformance: Almost identical to ksh88, but missing arrays E-mail: Simon J Gerraty <[email protected]> (zen.void.oz.au is down) 1993-10-11
- pdp-6 — (computer) Programmed Data Processor model 6. A computer designed around 1960 with more or less exactly the same hardware architecture as the PDP-10. It already had multi-user time sharing and batch processing and multi-level priority interrupts
- pdp-7 — (computer) A minicomputer sold by DEC in 1964. It had a memory cycle time of 1.75 microseconds and add time of 4 microseconds. I/O included a keyboard, printer, paper-tape and dual transport DECtape drives (type 555). DEC provided an "advanced" Fortran II compiler, a Symbolic Assembler, Editor, DDT Debugging System, Maintenance routines and a library of arithmetic, utility and programming aids developed on the program-compatible PDP-4. The PDP-7 was considered reliable enough (when properly programmed) to be used for control of nuclear reactors and such. Around 1970 Ken Thompson built the operating system that became Unix on a scavenged PDP-7 so he could play a descendant of the SPACEWAR game.
- peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- peach — the subacid, juicy, drupaceous fruit of a tree, Prunus persica, of the rose family.
- peake — Mervyn. 1911–68, English novelist, poet, and illustrator. In his trilogy Gormenghast (1946–59), he creates, with vivid imagination, a grotesque Gothic world
- peaky — peaked2 .
- peale — Charles Willson [wil-suh n] /ˈwɪl sən/ (Show IPA), 1741–1827, and his brother James, 1749–1831, U.S. painters.
- peano — Giuseppe Peano
- peans — any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
- pearl — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pears — the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- peart — lively; brisk; cheerful.
- peary — Robert Edwin, 1856–1920, U.S. admiral and arctic explorer.
- pease — a pea.
- peaty — of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.
- peavy — peavey.
- pebi- — denoting 250
- pecan — a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.