6 letter word starting with pa

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pacane noun A species of hickory. See Pecan.
pacate adjective Appeased; pacified; tranquil.
pacing present participle & vb. noun of Pace
pachak noun The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients.
pachy- A combining form meaning thick; as, pachyderm, pachydactyl.
pacify verb t. To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity.
packed imp. & past participle of Pack
packer noun A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
packet noun A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters., Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat., To make up into a packet or bundle., To send in a packet or dispatch vessel., To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
padded imp. & past participle of Pad
padder noun One who, or that which, pads., A highwayman; a footpad., One who, or that which, paddles.
paddle verb i. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes., To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc., To pat or stroke amorously, or gently., To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles., To pad; to tread upon; to trample., An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats., The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle., One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel., A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; — also called clough., A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle., A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing., See Paddle staff (b), below.
padnag noun An ambling nag.
paeony noun See Peony.
paging present participle & vb. noun of Page, The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.
pagina noun The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.
pagoda noun A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, — usually but not always, devoted to idol worship., An idol., A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.
paguma noun Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.
paigle noun A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.
pained imp. & past participle of Pain
painim noun A pagan; an infidel; — used also adjectively.
painty adjective Unskillfully painted, so that the painter’s method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
paired imp. & past participle of Pair
pairer noun One who impairs.
pajock noun A peacock.
palace noun The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception., The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage., Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.
palama noun A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.
palate noun The roof of the mouth., Relish; taste; liking; — a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste., Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste., A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon., To perceive by the taste.
paling present participle & vb. noun of Pale, Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure., The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.
paleae plural of Palea
palely adjective In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.
paleo- A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography.
palesy noun Palsy.
palish adjective Somewhat pale or wan.
palkee noun A palanquin.
palled imp. & past participle of Pall
pallah noun A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.
pallas noun Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.
pallet noun A small and mean bed; a bed of straw., Same as Palette., A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms., A potter’s wheel., An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it., A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands., A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack., A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel., One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump., One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel., In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes., One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo., A cup containing three ounces, — /ormerly used by surgeons.
pallid adjective Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.
pallia plural of Pallium
pallor adjective Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.
palmed imp. & past participle of Palm, Having or bearing a palm or palms.
palmar adjective Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand., Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
palmer verb t. One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice., A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places., A palmerworm., Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
palmic adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi); — formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
palmin noun A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil., Ricinolein.
palola noun An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.
palped adjective Having a palpus.
palpus noun A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.
palter verb i. To haggle., To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle., To babble; to chatter., To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.
paltry superl. Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
palule noun See Palulus or Palus.
paluli plural of Palulus
pament noun A pavement.
pampas noun pl. Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
pamper verb t. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite., To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.
pampre noun An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.
panta- Alt. of Panto-, See Pan-.
panto- Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous., See Pan-.
panned imp. & past participle of Pan
panada noun Alt. of Panade
panade noun Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored., A dagger.
panary adjective Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking., A storehouse for bread.
pandar noun Same as Pander.
pander noun A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer., Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another., To play the pander for., To act the part of a pander.
pandit noun See Pundit.
panful noun Enough to fill a pan.
panier noun See Pannier, 3.
pannel noun A kind of rustic saddle., The stomach of a hawk., A carriage for conveying a mortar and its bed, on a march.
pannus noun A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.
panted imp. & past participle of Pant
panter noun One who pants., A keeper of the pantry; a pantler., A net; a noose.
panton noun A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.
pantry noun An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.
papacy noun The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction., The popes, collectively; the succession of popes., The Roman Catholic religion; — commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.
papain noun A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.
papery adjective Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper.
papess noun A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan.
papion noun A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.
papism noun Popery; — an offensive term.
papist noun A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; — an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.
pappus noun The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.
papuan adjective Of or pertaining to Papua.
papula noun A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule., One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.
papule noun Same as Papula.
papyri plural of Papyrus
parade verb t. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled., An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled., Pompous show; formal display or exhibition., That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen., Posture of defense; guard., A public walk; a promenade., To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off., To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops., To make an exhibition or spectacle of one’s self, as by walking in a public place., To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.
parage noun Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance., Equality of condition between persons holding unequal portions of a fee., Kindred; family; birth.
parail noun See Apparel.
paramo noun A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.
paraph noun A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery., To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.
parcae noun pl. The Fates. See Fate, 4.
parcel noun A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part., A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece., An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group., A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet., To divide and distribute by parts or portions; — often with out or into., To add a parcel or item to; to itemize., To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer’s purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc., Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
pardie adverb / interj. Certainly; surely; truly; verily; — originally an oath.
pardon verb t. The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution., An official warrant of remission of penalty., The state of being forgiven., A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses., To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; — applied to the offender., To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; — applied to offenses., To refrain from exacting as a penalty., To give leave (of departure) to.
paring present participle & vb. noun of Pare, The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything., That which is pared off.
parent noun One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother., That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
parfay interj. By my faith; verily.
parfit adjective Perfect.
parget verb t. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses., To paint; to cover over., To lay on plaster., To paint, as the face., Gypsum or plaster stone., Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork., Paint, especially for the face.
pariah noun One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste., An outcast; one despised by society.
parial noun See Pair royal, under Pair, n.
parian adjective Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble., A native or inhabitant of Paros., A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.
paries noun The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
parish noun That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein., The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc., An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live., In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States., Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
parity noun The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning.
parked imp. & past participle of Park
parker noun The keeper of a park.
parley noun Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce., To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace.
parlor noun A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc., The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without., In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, — a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor., Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
parody noun A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty., A popular maxim, adage, or proverb., To write a parody upon; to burlesque.
parole noun A word; an oral utterance., Word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith; especially (Mil.), promise, upon one’s faith and honor, to fulfill stated conditions, as not to bear arms against one’s captors, to return to custody, or the like., A watchword given only to officers of guards; — distinguished from countersign, which is given to all guards., Oral declaration. See lst Parol, 2., See 2d Parol., To set at liberty on parole; as, to parole prisoners.
parral noun Alt. of Parrel
parrel noun The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure., A chimney-piece.
parrot noun In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci., Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases., To repeat by rote, as a parrot., To chatter like a parrot.
parsed imp. & past participle of Parse
parsee noun One of the adherents of the Zoroastrian or ancient Persian religion, descended from Persian refugees settled in India; a fire worshiper; a Gheber., The Iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of the Parsees.
parser noun One who parses.
parson noun A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls., Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.
parted imp. & past participle of Part, Separated; devided., Endowed with parts or abilities., Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; — said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc.
partan noun An edible British crab.
parter noun One who, or which, parts or separates.
partly adverb In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly.
parvis noun Alt. of Parvise
pascha noun The passover; the feast of Easter.
paseng noun The wild or bezoar goat. See Goat.
pashaw noun See Pasha.
pasque noun See Pasch.
passed imp. & past participle of Pass
passee adjective Past; gone by; hence, past one’s prime; worn; faded; as, a passee belle.
passer noun One who passes; a passenger.
passim adverb Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.
passus plural of Passus, A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
pasted imp. & past participle of Paste
pastel noun A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water., A plant affording a blue dye; the woad (Isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.
paster noun One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department., A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.
pastil noun Alt. of Pastille
pastor noun A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds., A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish., A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.
pastry noun The place where pastry is made., Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.
patted imp. & past participle of Pat
pataca noun The Spanish dollar; — called also patacoon.
patchy adjective Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
patela noun A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; — called also puteli.
patena noun A paten., A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.
patent adjective Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous., Open to public perusal; — said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter., Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines., Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf., A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party., A writing securing to an invention., A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands., The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent., To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
patera noun A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies., A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.
pathed imp. & past participle of Path
pathic noun A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite., Passive; suffering.
pathos noun That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
patine noun A plate. See Paten.
patina noun A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella., The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.
patois noun A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
patrol verb i. To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat., t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat., A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts., A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy’s whereabouts., The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol., Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.
patron noun One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender., A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him., A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself., An advocate or pleader., One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art., One who has gift and disposition of a benefice., A guardian saint. — called also patron saint., See Padrone, 2., To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor., Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.
pattee adjective Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; — said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross.
patten noun A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud., A stilt.
patter verb i. To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet., To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips., To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue., To spatter; to sprinkle., To mutter; as prayers., A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet., Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue., The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves’s patter; gypsies’ patter.
paugie noun Alt. of Paugy
paulin noun See Tarpaulin.
paunce noun The pansy.
paunch noun The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen., A paunch mat; — called also panch., The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper., To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel., To stuff with food.
pauper noun A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
paused imp. & past participle of Pause
pauser noun One who pauses.
pavage noun See Pavage.
paving present participle & vb. noun of Pave, The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement., A pavement.
pavese noun Alt. of Pavesse
pavian noun See Pavan.
pavier noun A paver.
paviin noun A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.
pavior noun One who paves; a paver., A rammer for driving paving stones., A brick or slab used for paving.
pavise noun A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it.
pavone noun A peacock.
pawing present participle & vb. noun of Paw
pawned imp. & past participle of Pawn
pawnee noun One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
pawner noun Alt. of Pawnor
pawnor noun One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
pawpaw noun See Papaw.
paxwax noun The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.
paying present participle & vb. noun of Pay
paynim noun & adjective See Painim.