5-letter words starting with p
- palme — (Sven) Olof (Joachim) [sven oo-lawf yoo-ah-kim] /svɛn ˈu lɔf ˈyu ɑ kɪm/ (Show IPA), 1927–86, Swedish political leader: prime minister 1969–76, 1982–86; assassinated.
- palmy — glorious, prosperous, or flourishing: the palmy days of yesteryear.
- palos — a seaport in SW Spain: starting point of Columbus's first voyage westward.
- palpi — plural of palpus.
- palsa — a mound of earth pushed up by or formed near the edge of a glacier, found in alpine and arctic areas.
- palsy — any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body.
- pampa — a city in N Texas.
- pamph — pamphlet
- pamuk — Orhan. born 1952, Turkish novelist and writer; author of The Black Book (1990), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002), and Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003). Nobel prize for literature 2006
- panax — any perennial herb of the genus Panax
- panay — an island in the central Philippines. 4446 sq. mi. (11,515 sq. km). Capital: Iloilo.
- panda — Also called giant panda. a white-and-black, bearlike mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, now rare and restricted to forest areas of central China containing stands of bamboo, on which it mainly subsists: formerly placed with the raccoon family but now classified as a bear subfamily, Ailuropodinae, or as the sole member of a separate family, Ailuropodidae, which diverged from an ancestral bear lineage.
- pandy — a stroke on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap given as a punishment in school.
- paned — having panes (usually used in combination): a diamond-paned window.
- panel — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- panga — a large, broad-bladed African knife used as a weapon or as an implement for cutting heavy jungle growth, sugar cane, etc.; machete.
- pangs — a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
- panic — Also called panic grass. any grass of the genus Panicum, many species of which bear edible grain.
- panim — a heathen or pagan
- panko — Japanese-style breadcrumbs in large, coarse flakes: panko-crusted fish fillets.
- panne — a soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
- panon — A family of pattern-directed string processing languages based on generalised Markov algorithms. PANON-1 is based on simple generalised Markov algorithms and PANON-2 on conditional functional generalised Markov algorithms.
- pansy — a violet, Viola tricolor hortensis, cultivated in many varieties, having richly and variously colored flowers.
- panth — the Sikh community
- panto — pantomime (def 2).
- pants — pant leg.
- panty — panties.
- panza — Sancho, Sancho Panza.
- paoli — Pasquale di, 1725–1807, Corsican military leader, statesman, and patriot.
- paolo — an obsolete Italian silver coin
- papal — of or relating to the pope or the papacy: a papal visit to Canada.
- papaw — pawpaw.
- papen — Franz von [frahnts fuh n] /frɑnts fən/ (Show IPA), 1879–1969, German diplomat, statesman, and soldier.
- paper — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- pappi — a downy, bristly, or other tuftlike appendage of the achene of certain plants, as the dandelion and the thistle.
- pappy — like pap; mushy.
- papua — Papua New Guinea.
- para- — beside; near
- parae — a former copper coin of Turkey, the 40th part of a piaster.
- param — formal argument
- parca — an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny. Compare Parcae.
- parch — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- pards — partner; companion.
- pared — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
- pareo — pareu (def 2).
- pares — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
- pareu — lavalava.
- parev — containing neither meat nor milk products and so fit for use with either meat or milk dishes
- parge — to coat or cover with plaster
- pargo — a generic name for any sea bream or snapper fish