7-letter words starting with pe
- peeress — the wife or widow of a peer.
- peering — to look narrowly or searchingly, as in the effort to discern clearly.
- peevers — hopscotch
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- peg box — the head of a stringed instrument, with several pegs that can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them
- peg leg — an artificial leg, especially a wooden one.
- peg out — attach by pegs to a line
- peg top — a child's spinning top, usually made of wood with a metal centre pin
- peg-top — wide at the hips and narrowing to the ankle: peg-top trousers; peg-top skirts.
- pegasus — 1. (networking, product) A product to support Internet searches, electronic mail, and Usenet news. 2. (project) An open source project run by The Open Group which implements a Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager.
- pegging — a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
- pegless — without pegs; not requiring pegs
- peglike — a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
- pegwood — a rod of boxwood of about 1/3 inch (8.4 mm) diameter, cut in various ways at the end and used by watchmakers for cleaning jewels.
- pehlevi — the Pahlavi language.
- peiping — Wade-Giles. former name of Beijing.
- peishwa — a leader of the Maratha people
- pekepoo — peekapoo.
- pelagic — of or relating to the open seas or oceans.
- pelasgi — the pre-Hellenic peoples who inhabited Greece and the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks
- pelican — any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
- pelisse — an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- peloria — regularity of structure occurring abnormally in flowers normally irregular.
- pelorus — a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peloton — an ornamental glass made in Bohemia in the late 19th century, usually having a striated overlay of glass filaments in a different color.
- peltast — (in ancient Greece) a lightly armed foot soldier
- peltate — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- pelters — strong criticism or verbal abuse
- pelting — paltry; petty; mean.
- pembina — highbush cranberry.
- pemican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
- pen nib — the writing point of a pen
- pen pal — a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.
- pen-pal — a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.
- penalty — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- penance — a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
- penates — the household gods of the ancient Romans
- pendant — a hanging ornament, as an earring or the main piece suspended from a necklace.
- pendent — hanging or suspended: a pendent lamp.
- pending — while awaiting; until: pending his return.
- pendule — a manoeuvre by which a climber on a rope from above swings in a pendulum-like series of movements to reach another line of ascent
- peneios — Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- penguin — any of several flightless, aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having webbed feet and wings reduced to flippers.
- penicil — a small, brushlike tuft of hairs, as on a caterpillar.
- penis's — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- penname — author's pseudonym
- pennant — a long, tapering flag or burgee of distinctive form and special significance, borne on naval or other vessels and used in signaling or for identification.
- pennate — winged; feathered.
- pennell — Joseph, 1860–1926, U.S. etcher, illustrator, and writer.