Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Pact (v.) An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant.

(1) - Pad (n.) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
(2) - Pad (n.) An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
(3) - Pad (n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.
(4) - Pad (n.) The act of robbing on the highway.
(5) - Pad (v. t.) To travel upon foot; to tread.
(6) - Pad (v. i.) To travel heavily or slowly.
(7) - Pad (v. i.) To rob on foot.
(8) - Pad (v. i.) To wear a path by walking.
(9) - Pad (n.) A footpath; a road.
(10) - Pad (n.) A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
(11) - Pad (v. t.) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
(12) - Pad (n.) A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
(13) - Pad (n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
(14) - Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
(15) - Pad (n.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
(16) - Pad (n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
(17) - Pad (n.) A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
(18) - Pad (v. t.) To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
(19) - Pad (n.) A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.

(1) - Padding (n.) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
(2) - Padding (n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.
(3) - Padding (n.) The material with which anything is padded.
(4) - Padding (n.) The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
(5) - Padding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pad

(1) - Paddle (v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.
(2) - Paddle (v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
(3) - Paddle (v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
(4) - Paddle (v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
(5) - Paddle (v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
(6) - Paddle (v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
(7) - Paddle (v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
(8) - Paddle (v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
(9) - Paddle (v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
(10) - Paddle (v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
(11) - Paddle (v. i.) 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.
(12) - Paddle (v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.