5-letter words starting with p
- pecky — spotted with fungi.
- pecos — a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- pedal — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pedes — a foot or footlike part.
- pedi- — indicating the foot
- pedia — a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- pedo- — indicating soil
- pedon — a three-dimensional sample of a soil just large enough to show the characteristics of all its horizons.
- pedro — any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- peele — George, 1558?–97? English dramatist.
- peene — a river in NE Germany, flowing E to the Baltic Sea. About 97 miles (155 km) long.
- peeoy — a homemade firework
- peeps — to utter the short, shrill little cry of a young bird, a mouse, etc.; cheep; squeak.
- peers — a person of the same legal status: a jury of one's peers.
- peery — a spinning top
- peeve — to render peevish; annoy.
- peggy — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- péguy — Charles (ʃarl). 1873–1914, French poet and essayist, whose works include Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc (1910); founder of the journal Cahiers de la quinzaine (1900–14): killed in World War I
- peipa — Pilot European Image Processing Archive
- peize — to weigh
- pekan — the fisher, Martes pennanti.
- pekin — a city in central Illinois.
- pekoe — a superior kind of black tea from Sri Lanka, India, and Java, made from leaves coarser than those used for orange pekoe.
- pelee — Mount, a volcano in the West Indies, on the island of Martinique: eruption 1902. 4428 feet (1350 meters).
- pella — a ruined city in N Greece, NW of Salonika: the capital of ancient Macedonia; birthplace of Alexander the Great.
- pelly — a river in SE Yukon Territory, Canada, flowing NW to the Yukon River. 330 miles (530 km) long.
- pelma — the sole of the foot
- pelon — (in Latin America) hairless
- pelta — a small shield, usually crescent shaped, used in ancient times
- pemba — an island near the E coast of equatorial Africa: formerly part of Zanzibar protectorate; now a part of Tanzania. 164,321; 380 sq. mi. (984 sq. km).
- penal — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pence — a plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination): sixpence; The fare was 15 pence.
- penda — died 655 ad, king of Mercia (?634–55)
- pends — to remain undecided or unsettled.
- pendu — culturally backward
- pene- — almost
- penes — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pengo — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- penis — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- penki — Benxi.
- penna — a contour feather, as distinguished from a down feather, plume, etc.
- penne — a type of tubular pasta having diagonally cut ends.
- penni — an aluminum coin of Finland until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a markka.
- penny — a bronze coin, the 100th part of the dollars of various nations, as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States; one cent.
- pents — penthouse (def 4).
- penza — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- peony — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- pepin — ("Pepin the Short") died a.d. 768, king of the Franks 751–768 (father of Charlemagne).
- pepla — a short full flounce or an extension of a garment below the waist, covering the hips.
- peppy — energetic; vigorous; lively.