7-letter words starting with pe
- pennied — having or consisting of a penny or pennies
- pennies — a female given name, form of Penelope.
- penning — a small enclosure for domestic animals.
- penrith — a market town in NW England, in Cumbria. Pop: 14 471 (2001)
- penrose — Sir Roger. born 1931, British mathematician and theoretical physicist, noted for his investigation of black holes
- pensees — a collection of notes, essays, etc., dealing with religious and philosophical matters by Blaise Pascal, published posthumously in 1670.
- pensile — hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- pension — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- pensive — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- penster — a writer, esp of trivial things
- pent-up — confined; restrained; not vented or expressed; curbed: pent-up emotions; pent-up rage.
- pentact — a sponge spicule with five rays
- pentane — a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
- pentene — a colourless flammable liquid alkene having several straight-chained isomeric forms, used in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C5H10
- pentice — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- pentito — a person involved in organized crime who offers information to the police in return for immunity from prosecution
- pentium — (processor) Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency checking. It can execute a maximum of two instructions per cycle. It does pipelined floating-point and performs branch prediction. It has 16 kilobytes of on-chip cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers. It is built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic. Its clock rate is 66MHz, heat dissipation is 16W, integer performance is 64.5 SPECint92, floating-point performance 56.9 SPECfp92. It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number. The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II. The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU: Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III A floating-point division bug was discovered in October 1994.
- pentode — a vacuum tube having five electrodes, usually a plate, three grids, and a cathode, within the same envelope.
- pentose — a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 1 0 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- penuche — Also, panocha. Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a fudgelike candy made of brown sugar, butter, and milk, usually with nuts.
- penzias — Arno Allan, born 1933, U.S. astrophysicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in physics 1978.
- peonage — the condition or service of a peon.
- peopler — a settler; colonizer
- peoples — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- peppery — full of or tasting like pepper; hot; pungent.
- peptalk — to give a pep talk to (a person, group, etc.).
- peptide — a compound containing two or more amino acids in which the carboxyl group of one acid is linked to the amino group of the other.
- peptize — to disperse (a substance) into colloidal form, usually in a liquid.
- peptone — any of a class of diffusible, soluble substances into which proteins are converted by partial hydrolysis.
- per an. — per annum
- per day — relating to an allowance for daily expenses, usually those incurred while working
- per pro — by delegation to; through the agency of: used when signing documents on behalf of someone else
- per say — a frequent misspelling of per se.
- peracid — an oxyacid, the primary element of which is in its highest possible oxidation state, as perchloric acid, HClO 4 , and permanganic acid, HMnO 4 .
- perahia — Murray, born 1947, U.S. pianist.
- percale — a closely woven, smooth-finished, plain or printed cotton cloth, used for bed sheets, clothing, etc.
- percase — maybe; perhaps
- percent — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- percept — the mental result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; an impression or sensation of something perceived.
- perched — a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
- percher — a person or thing that perches.
- perches — a former division of N France.
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
- percine — a perch-like fish, esp one belonging to the family Percidae
- percoct — well-cooked; overcooked
- percoid — belonging to the Percoidea, a group of acanthopterygian fishes comprising the true perches and related families, and constituting one of the largest natural groups of fishes.
- percuss — Medicine/Medical. to strike or tap for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
- perdido — Mon·te [Spanish mawn-te] /Spanish ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA) a mountain in NE Spain, a peak of the Pyrenees. 10,994 feet (3350 meters).
- perdure — to continue or last permanently; endure.
- peregal — equal