8-letter words starting with pa
- parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
- parnaiba — a seaport in NE Brazil.
- parochin — a parish
- parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
- paronymy — a play on words
- paroquet — parakeet.
- parosmia — a disorder of the sense of smell, especially the perception of odors that are not present.
- parotoid — Also called parotoid gland. any of certain cutaneous glands forming warty masses near the ear in certain toads.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- parroket — parakeet.
- parroted — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- parroter — a person who repeats the words or ideas of others
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- part way — Part way means part of the way or partly.
- part-off — a screen used to divide off part of a room, such as the eating place of a parlour
- part-way — at or to a part of the way or distance: Shall I walk you partway? I'm already partway home.
- partaken — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
- partaker — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
- parterre — Also called parquet circle. the rear section of seats, and sometimes also the side sections, of the main floor of a theater, concert hall, or opera house.
- parthian — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- partiers — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- partisan — a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
- partizan — partisan2 .
- partners — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- parts of — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- partwork — series of magazines issued at weekly or monthly intervals, which are designed to be bound together to form a complete course or book
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- partyism — adherence to a political party or organization.
- parvanov — Georgi. born 1957, Bulgarian politician: president of Bulgaria (2000–2012)
- parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
- parzival — Percival.
- pas alle — a simple walking step in which the whole foot is put down softly on the ground.
- pas seul — a dance performed by one person; dance solo.
- pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- pascal-f — Pascal extended to include fixed-point arithmetic. E. Nelson, "Pascal-F: Programming Language for Real-Time Automotive Control", IEEE ElectroTechnol. Rev. (USA), 2:39, 1968.
- pascal-m — ["Pascal-m: A Language for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems", S. Abramsky et al in Distributed Computing Systems, Y. Paker et al eds, Academic Press 1986, pp. 163-189].
- pascal-p — (language) The variant of Pascal used by the UCSD p-system environment. Pascal-P has extended string and array operations, random-access files and separate compilation. It uses P-code intermediate code and is available from Pecan.
- pascal-s — Simplified Pascal. June, 1975. A strict subset of Pascal, omits scalar types, subranges, sets, files, pointers, packed structures, 'with' and 'goto. Source for a complete Pascal-S compiler is in "Pascal-S: A Subset and Its Implementation", N. Wirth in Pascal - The Language and Its Implementation, by D.W. Barron, Wiley 1979.
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.