7-letter words containing a, p, e, r
- slapper — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- snapper — any of several large marine food fishes of the family Lutjanidae.
- spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
- spadger — a sparrow
- spaller — a person or thing that spalls
- spammer — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
- spanker — Nautical. a fore-and-aft sail on the aftermost lower mast of a sailing vessel having three or more masts. a designation given to the mast abaft a mizzenmast, usually the aftermost mast in any vessel.
- spanner — a person or thing that spans.
- sparger — a sprinkling.
- sparker — a lover, swain, or beau.
- sparkie — an electrician
- sparkle — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- sparred — a motion of sparring.
- sparrer — someone who spars
- sparver — a tentlike bed curtain or canopy.
- spatter — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- speaker — Tris(tram E.) 1888–1958, U.S. baseball player.
- speared — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spectra — a plural of spectrum.
- spheral — of or relating to a sphere.
- spiraea — any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- sprague — Frank Julian, 1857–1934, U.S. electrical engineer and inventor.
- sprayer — device that sprays a liquid
- sprayey — like, spattered with, or sending out spray
- spreagh — a raid to steal cattle
- spuriae — the feathers on the bastard wing of a bird
- spyware — Computers. software that is installed surreptitiously and gathers information about an Internet user's browsing habits, intercepts the user's personal data, etc., transmitting this information to a third party: a parent's use of spyware to monitor a child's online activities.
- stamper — a person or thing that stamps.
- stapler — a person who staples wool.
- swamper — Informal. a person who inhabits, works in, or is exceptionally familiar with swamps.
- swapper — to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
- tampere — a city in SW Finland.
- tapered — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tapster — a bartender.
- tarpeia — a vestal virgin who betrayed Rome to the Sabines and was crushed under their shields when she claimed a reward.
- tear up — If something such as a road, railway, or area of land is torn up, it is completely removed or destroyed.
- tempera — a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- templar — a member of a religious military order founded by Crusaders in Jerusalem about 1118, and suppressed in 1312.
- tempura — seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- therapy — the treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitating, or curative process: speech therapy.
- traipse — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- tramped — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
- tramper — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
- trample — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- trapeze — an apparatus, used in gymnastics and acrobatics, consisting of a short horizontal bar attached to the ends of two suspended ropes.
- trapped — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
- trapper — a person or thing that traps.
- trepang — any of various holothurians or sea cucumbers, as Holothuria edulis, used as food in China.
- typebar — (on a typewriter or some computer printers) one of a series of thin metal bars containing type and actuated by the keyboard or computer signal.
- undrape — to strip of drapery; uncover.