Words starting with pit
3 letter words starting with pit
- pit — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
- pit boss — a casino employee who supervises gambling-table activity.
- pit bull — American Staffordshire terrier.
- pit bull terrier — American Staffordshire terrier.
- pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
4 letter words starting with pit
- pita — a round, flat Middle Eastern bread that is often filled with meat, peppers, etc., to make a sandwich.
- pith — Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- piti — PITI is the components of a mortgage payment.
- pits — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
- pitt — William, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708–78, British statesman.
5 letter words starting with pit
- pitch — to smear or cover with pitch.
- pithy — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- piton — a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- pitri — the legendary progenitor of any family.
- pitta — any of several brilliantly colored, passerine birds of the family Pittidae, inhabiting dark, Old World, tropical forests.
6 letter words starting with pit
- pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
- pitaya — any of several cacti of the genus Lemaireocereus and related genera, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, bearing edible fruit.
- pitchy — full of or abounding in pitch.
- pithoi — a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- pithom — one of the two cities built by Israelite slaves in Egypt. Ex. 1:11.
7 letter words starting with pit
- pitanga — Surinam cherry.
- pitapat — with a quick succession of beats or taps: Her heart beat pitapat with excitement.
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- pitched — sound: of a certain pitch
- pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
8 letter words starting with pit
- pit-sawn — (of timber, esp formerly) sawn into planks by hand in a saw-pit
- pitahaya — any of several cacti of the genus Lemaireocereus and related genera, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, bearing edible fruit.
- pitcairn — British island in Polynesia, in the South Pacific: 1.8 sq mi (4.6 sq km); pop. 54
- pitchily — in a pitchy manner
- pitching — any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
9 letter words starting with pit
- pitchbend — an electronic device that enables a player to bend the pitch of a note being sounded on a synthesizer, usually with a pitch wheel, strip, or lever
- pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pitchpole — (of a boat) to capsize end over end, as in heavy surf.
- pithecoid — belonging or pertaining to the genus Pithecia and related genera, including the saki monkeys.
- pithiness — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
10 letter words starting with pit
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- pitch-pipe — a small flute or reed pipe producing one or more pitches when blown into, used chiefly for establishing the proper pitch in singing or in tuning a musical instrument.
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
11 letter words starting with pit
- pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
- pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
- pitchblende — a massive variety of uraninite, occurring in black pitchlike masses: a major ore of uranium and radium.
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
12 letter words starting with pit
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- pityrosporum — a genus of fungi that live on the skin, esp that of the scalp and face, present in conditions such as dandruff and dermatitis
- pitot-static tube — a device combining a Pitot tube with a static tube: used to measure airspeed.
13 letter words starting with pit
- pitter-patter — the sound of a rapid succession of light beats or taps, as of rain, footsteps, etc.
- pitch-and-run shot — chip shot.
14 letter words starting with pit
- pitch-and-putt — of or relating to a small-scale golf course, 5 to 20 acres, and usually having 9 holes of 50 yards in length from tee to cup.
- pitch-and-toss — a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.
- pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
- pitjantjatjara — an Aboriginal people of the desert area of South Australia
15 letter words starting with pit
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- pithecanthropus erectus — Java man
16 letter words starting with pit
- pithecanthropine — of, belonging to, or resembling a former genus (Pithecanthropus, now classified as Homo erectus) of extinct early humans, who lived in Java, China, Europe, and Africa
- pithecanthropoid — of, relating to, or resembling the former genus Pithecanthropus or one of its members.
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