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7-letter words starting with pa

  • pansied — covered with pansies
  • pantest — of or relating to pants: pant cuffs.
  • panther — the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
  • panties — panties.
  • pantile — a roofing tile straight in its length but curved in its width to overlap the next tile.
  • pantine — a pasteboard puppet that was fashionable in the 1700s
  • panting — to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
  • pantler — a pantry servant
  • pantone — (graphics)   A set of standard colours for printing, each of which is specified by a single number. You can buy a Pantone swatch book containing samples of each colour. Some computer graphics software allows colours to be specified as Pantone numbers. Even though a computer monitor can only show an approximation to some of the colours, the software can output a colour separation for each different Pantone colour, enabling a print shop to exactly reproduce the original desired colour.
  • pantoum — a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
  • panurge — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
  • paoking — Baoqing.
  • paoshan — a town in W Yunnan province, in S China, on the Burma Road.
  • paoting — a city in central Hebei province, in NE China.
  • papable — suitable or likely to become pope.
  • papadum — an Indian flatbread made of lentil flour, often topped with chutney or various dips or salsas.
  • papaver — a genus of poppies including over 120 species
  • papeete — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
  • paperer — a paperhanger.
  • paphian — of or relating to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus sacred to Aphrodite.
  • papilio — a butterfly or moth
  • papilla — any small, nipplelike process or projection.
  • papoose — a North American Indian baby or young child.
  • pappose — having or forming a pappus.
  • pappous — having or forming a pappus.
  • paprika — a red, powdery condiment derived from dried, ripe sweet peppers.
  • papulae — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
  • papular — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
  • papyral — made from papyrus
  • papyrus — a tall, aquatic plant, Cyperus papyrus, of the sedge family, native to the Nile valley: the Egyptian subspecies, C. papyrus hadidii, thought to be common in ancient times, now occurs only in several sites.
  • paraben — any ester of parahydroxybenzoic acid, some of which are used in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and have been found in breast cancer tumours
  • parable — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
  • paracme — the point at which a fever lessens
  • parador — a government-sponsored inn in Spain, usually in a scenic or historic area, that offers lodging and meals at reasonable prices.
  • parados — a bank of earth built behind a trench or military emplacement to protect soldiers from a surprise attack from the rear.
  • paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
  • paragon — a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence: a paragon of virtue. Synonyms: ideal, standard, epitome, quintessence; example, exemplar, paradigm.
  • paraiba — a state in E Brazil. 21,760 sq. mi. (56,360 sq. km). Capital: João Pessoa.
  • parakou — a city in E central Benin.
  • paralfl — Hudak, Yale. Parallel functional language, a superset of Alfl. Used by the Alfalfa system on Intel iPSC and Encore Multimax.
  • paramus — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • paranym — a euphemism
  • parapet — Fortification. a defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification. an elevation raised above the main wall or rampart of a permanent fortification.
  • parasol — a lightweight umbrella used, especially by women, as a sunshade.
  • paratha — (in Indian cookery) a flat unleavened bread, resembling a small nan bread, that is fried on a griddle
  • parbake — to partially bake
  • parboil — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
  • parched — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
  • pardine — spotted; resembling a leopard
  • pardner — (in direct address) friend.
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