5 Letter Words Starting with PE

Every 5-letter English word in the JumbleFix dictionary that starts with PE. Each word links to its definition. Face-value Scrabble and Words With Friends scores are shown so you can pick a high-scoring play without leaving the page.

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  1. peace Scrabble 9 · WWF 11
    v.. A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose
  2. peach Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    v. t.. To accuse of crime; to inform against.
  3. peage Scrabble 8 · WWF 10
    n.. See Paage.
  4. peaky Scrabble 14 · WWF 14
    a.. Having a peak or peaks.
  5. pearl Scrabble 7 · WWF 9
    n.. A fringe or border.
  6. peart Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    a.. Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
  7. peary Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    n.. United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
  8. pease Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    pl.. of Pea
  9. peaty Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    a.. Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.
  10. peavy Scrabble 13 · WWF 14
    n.. a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs
  11. pecan Scrabble 9 · WWF 12
    n.. A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest...
  12. pecos Scrabble 9 · WWF 11
    n.. a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas
  13. pedal Scrabble 8 · WWF 10
    a.. Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
  14. pedes Scrabble 8 · WWF 9
    pl.. of Pes
  15. peele Scrabble 7 · WWF 9
    n.. A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, str...
  16. peert Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    a.. Same as Peart.
  17. peery Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    a.. Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.
  18. peeve Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. an annoyed or irritated mood
  19. peise Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    n.. A weight; a poise.
  20. pekan Scrabble 11 · WWF 13
    n.. See Fisher, 2.
  21. pekoe Scrabble 11 · WWF 12
    n.. A kind of black tea.
  22. pelew Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean
  23. pelta Scrabble 7 · WWF 9
    n.. A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped.
  24. penal Scrabble 7 · WWF 10
    a.. Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
  25. pence Scrabble 9 · WWF 12
    n.. pl. of Penny. See Penny.
  26. pengo Scrabble 8 · WWF 11
    n.. a Dravidian language spoken in south central India
  27. penis Scrabble 7 · WWF 9
    n.. The male member, or organ of generation.
  28. penna Scrabble 7 · WWF 10
    n.. A perfect, or normal, feather.
  29. penne Scrabble 7 · WWF 10
    n.. pasta in short tubes with diagonally cut ends
  30. penni Scrabble 7 · WWF 10
    n.. 100 pennia formerly equaled 1 markka in Finland
  31. penny Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    a.. Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
  32. penta Scrabble 7 · WWF 9
    A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.
  33. peony Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, o...
  34. pepin Scrabble 9 · WWF 12
    n.. king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751 (714-768)
  35. peppy Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    a.. marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance"
  36. pepsi Scrabble 9 · WWF 11
    n.. Pepsi Cola is a trademarked cola
  37. pepys Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    n.. English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)
  38. perca Scrabble 9 · WWF 11
    n.. A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.
  39. perch Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    n.. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens,...
  40. percy Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    n.. English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)
  41. perdu Scrabble 8 · WWF 10
    a.. One placed on watch, or in ambush.
  42. perdy Scrabble 11 · WWF 11
    adv.. Truly. See Parde.
  43. peril Scrabble 7 · WWF 9
    n.. Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
  44. peris Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    pl.. of Peri
  45. perky Scrabble 14 · WWF 14
    a.. Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
  46. peron Scrabble 7 · WWF 9
    n.. Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974)
  47. perry Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    n.. A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
  48. perth Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    n.. the state capital of Western Australia
  49. pesah Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    n.. (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
  50. pesky Scrabble 14 · WWF 14
    a.. Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive.
  51. pesto Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    n.. a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil
  52. petal Scrabble 7 · WWF 9
    n.. One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.
  53. peter Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    n.. A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,
  54. petit Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    a.. Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty.
  55. petre Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    n.. See Saltpeter.
  56. petro Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    A combining form from Gr. / a rock, / a stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic.
  57. petto Scrabble 7 · WWF 8
    n.. The breast.
  58. petty Scrabble 10 · WWF 10
    superl.. Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
  59. pewee Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.
  60. pewit Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. The lapwing.