7-Letter Nouns Starting With P

1. items for sale to the individual consumer

2. an artifact that has been created by someone or some process

1. the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

2. the condition of being concealed or hidden

1. a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished

2. a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need

1. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

2. a planned undertaking

1. an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics

2. an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)

1. an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines

1. a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

2. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents

1. a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

2. the act of paying money

1. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

2. a question raised for consideration or solution

1. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

2. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

1. the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech

2. something presented as a gift

1. a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent

1. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together

2. a wrapped container

1. someone whose occupation is printing

2. (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing

1. a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

2. one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

2. what something is used for

1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

1. any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk and legumes

1. a person's partner in marriage

2. an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest

1. the act of playing a musical instrument

2. the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation

1. the evaluation of something in terms of its price

1. a person who requires medical care

2. the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

1. payment for insurance

2. the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value

1. generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives

2. a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered

1. fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

1. space in which vehicles can be parked

2. the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily

1. a perceptual structure

2. a customary way of operation or behavior

1. the science of matter and energy and their interactions

2. the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something

1. a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

2. (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records

1. an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future

2. a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public

1. a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa

2. a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years

1. something determined in relation to something that includes it

2. something less than the whole of a human artifact

1. the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom

2. the person who is head of government (in several countries)

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

1. hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter

1. the charge for mailing something

2. a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid

1. a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future

2. grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

1. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate

2. euphemistic expressions for death

1. ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln

2. the craft of making earthenware

1. the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant

2. a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency

1. someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

2. one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

1. the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty

2. a payment required for not fulfilling a contract

1. a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working

1. a strong feeling or emotion

2. the trait of being intensely emotional

1. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

2. something won (especially money)

1. a mark to indicate a direction or relation

2. an indicator as on a dial

1. a distinctive odor that is pleasant

2. a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

1. the act of passing from one state or place to the next

2. a section of text; particularly a section of medium length

1. a liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit

1. a person who makes plans

2. a notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc.

1. the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group

1. any material used especially to protect something

2. the enclosure of something in a package or box

1. a treeless grassy plain

1. an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)

2. branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling

1. a list of employees and their salaries

2. the total amount of money paid in wages

1. a formal and solemn declaration of objection

2. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

1. the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb

1. the quantity of a crop that is harvested

2. the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)

1. the act of applying force in order to move something away

1. short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

1. the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you

1. the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture

2. a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria

1. an authoritative person who divines the future

2. someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God

1. a ghostly appearing figure

2. something existing in perception only

1. a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers

1. a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

2. flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

1. one who loves and defends his or her country

1. a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

2. a trodden path

1. a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception

1. a wide scenic road planted with trees

1. an artist who paints

2. a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint

1. a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex

2. (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases

1. amide combining the amino group of one amino acid with the carboxyl group of another; usually obtained by partial hydrolysis of protein

1. a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis

2. a leopard in the black color phase

1. a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes

2. usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

1. the enactment of a pretense

1. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

1. an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug

2. (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead

1. a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate

2. the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements

1. a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age)

1. (baseball) the person who does the pitching

2. an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring

1. a person who is being chased

1. artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort

1. corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat

2. small kernels of corn exploded by heat

1. any final competition to determine a championship

1. the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

2. goods carried by a large vehicle

1. (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

1. a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

1. a relatively flat highland

1. the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art

2. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used

1. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows

2. music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera

1. large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish

1. a high-ranking university administrator

1. the cost of carrying or transporting

2. overland track between navigable waterways

1. an affix that is added at the end of the word

1. a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets

1. colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum; used as a fuel

1. the arrangement of the body and its limbs

2. characteristic way of bearing one's body

1. any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes

2. (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)

1. European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot

2. male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots

1. an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount

1. someone who journeys in foreign lands

2. someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

1. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

2. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

1. an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

2. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

1. a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings

2. any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs

1. a person who plays the piano

1. dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)

2. any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color

1. a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork

1. a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides

1. a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes

1. someone who supervises (an examination)

1. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

2. the act of grouping things or people in pairs

1. an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration

2. a sign of something about to happen

1. a large shallow dish used for serving food

2. sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

1. an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes

2. a rich and spectacular ceremony

1. a laminate made of thin layers of wood

1. a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication

1. a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface

2. the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)

1. a country person

2. one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

1. annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves

2. aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food

1. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play

2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

1. lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish

2. important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod

1. a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage

2. a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed

1. something that has been pruned off of a plant

2. the act of trimming a plant

1. the power or right to give orders or make decisions

2. capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects

1. a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances

1. the owner or manager of a plantation

2. a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground

1. someone who fights for a cause

1. a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant

2. a team of policemen working under the military platoon system

1. teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values

1. a senior clergyman and dignitary

2. any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

1. a pale green variety of chrysolite; used as a gemstone

1. the time of life when sex glands become functional

1. financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)

2. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

1. the act of departing politely

2. a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions

1. a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

1. someone who attacks in search of booty

2. small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

1. a short moral story (often with animal characters)

2. (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message

1. any liquid suitable for drinking

1. an amino acid that is found in many proteins (especially collagen)

1. the immediate descendants of a person

1. a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action

2. a clerk who marks data on a chart

1. tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving

1. pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race

1. someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures

2. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

1. criminal offense of making false statements under oath

1. the award given to the champion

2. a flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering)

1. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

1. flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish

2. any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

1. whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all

1. lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish

2. important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod

1. loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales

1. reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received

2. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

1. a man who delivers the mail

1. a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute

1. the act of making something ready

2. any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant

1. a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation

1. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

1. paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans

2. tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times

1. something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

2. an artful or simulated semblance

1. a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)

1. a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career

1. goods or money obtained illegally

1. a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut

1. a small puncture that might have been made by a pin

1. distinctive and stylish elegance

2. a feathered plume on a helmet

1. a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase

1. (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge

2. a float supporting a seaplane

1. to break off a military action with an enemy

1. someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains

2. someone who dives (into water)

1. plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers

2. a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos

1. rule of personal conduct

2. a doctrine that is taught

1. the state of being first in importance

1. a pleasing entertainer

1. study of poetic works

1. affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)

1. a chief officer or chief magistrate

1. an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements

2. the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

1. a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin

1. written matter preceding the main text of a book

1. hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

1. the intended meaning of a communication

2. the pervading meaning or tenor

1. a stipulated condition

1. someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

1. remorse for your past conduct

2. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution

1. tilling the land with a plow

1. a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research

2. a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree

1. (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds

2. a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

1. an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)

2. branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling

1. measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube

1. the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated

1. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

1. breathing heavily (as after exertion)

2. any fabric used to make trousers

1. glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot

1. a handheld collapsible source of shade

1. a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding

1. (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground

1. a floor made of parquetry

2. seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle

1. the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

1. any of the bones of the fingers or toes

2. any closely ranked crowd of people

1. the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

1. any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers

1. an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty

2. a trap in the form of a concealed hole

1. the peers of a kingdom considered as a group

1. a plait of braided hair

1. a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area

1. a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

1. reading carefully with intent to remember

1. the head of the Roman Catholic Church

1. someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

2. an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs

1. an insufficient quantity or number

1. goods or money obtained illegally

2. the act of stealing valuable things from a place

1. the metal bob of a plumb line

1. (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

1. the act of creating written works

1. an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation

1. large open car seating four with folding top

1. blowing tobacco smoke out into the air

2. an act of forcible exhalation

1. a framework that supports climbing plants

1. a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)

2. a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)

1. deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food

1. any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding

1. a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

1. a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint

1. a piece of cloth sewn under an opening

1. a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water

1. a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play

1. leather from the skin of swine

1. layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream

1. a foreboding about what is about to happen

2. a sign of something about to happen

1. the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone

1. a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony

2. fortification consisting of a low wall

1. periapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is nearest to the Earth

1. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

2. (prosody) a system of versification

1. an ignorant or foolish person

2. the head of a pin

1. a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface)

1. the activeness of an energetic personality

1. complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles

1. someone paddling a canoe

1. common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb

2. leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China

1. either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle)

2. a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person

1. long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers

1. a fine closely woven cotton fabric

1. someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another

2. a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)

1. the male sex organ

1. cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans

1. a dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream

1. a senior clergyman and dignitary

1. any of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein

1. a man who plows

1. the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low

1. especially a light saddle horse for a woman

1. a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection

1. the whitish root of cultivated parsnip

2. a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root

1. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

1. betrayal of a trust

2. an act of deliberate betrayal

1. a complete and impressive array

1. the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf

1. any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads

1. the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct

2. the property of being easy to see and understand

1. one of the variations contained in a partita

2. (music) an instrumental suite common in the 18th century

1. An athletic discipline, in which practitioners traverse any environment in the most efficient way possible using their physical abilities, and which commonly involves running, jumping, vaulting, rolling, and other similar physical movements.

1. someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

1. a sign of something about to happen