6-letter words starting with par
- parsec — a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- parsee — an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- parser — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- parsva — a semilegendary Tirthankara of the 8th century b.c., said to have been born after a series of pious incarnations in each of which he was killed by an antagonist who had originally been his elder brother: the twenty-third Tirthankara.
- partan — a crab.
- parted — partial; of a part: part owner.
- parter — a person or thing that parts; separator
- partim — in part
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- partly — in part; to some extent or degree; partially; not wholly: His statement is partly true.
- parton — a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- parula — any of several American wood warblers of the genus Parula, especially P. americana (northern parula) having bluish plumage with a yellow throat and breast.
- parure — a matching set of jewels or ornaments.
- parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.