7-letter words containing a, p, o, r
- pergola — an arbor formed of horizontal trelliswork supported on columns or posts, over which vines or other plants are trained.
- peroral — administered or performed through the mouth, as surgery or administration of a drug.
- persona — a person.
- pharaoh — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- phorate — a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 1 7 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- picador — one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance.
- pignora — property held as security for a debt.
- pizarro — Francisco [fran-sis-koh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), c1470–1541, Spanish conqueror of Peru.
- pleroma — the state of total fullness or abundance, relating particularly to the nature of God
- poacher — a pan having a tight-fitting lid and metal cups for steaming or poaching eggs.
- pochard — an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
- podagra — gouty inflammation of the great toe.
- polacre — a three-masted sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean
- polaris — a distinctive English argot in use since at least the 18th century among groups of theatrical and circus performers and in certain homosexual communities, derived largely from Italian, directly or through Lingua Franca.
- polaron — a kind of electron
- pollard — a tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of branches.
- pollera — a gaily colored costume worn by women during fiestas in Latin-American countries.
- pommard — a dry, red wine from the Pommard parish in Burgundy.
- poniard — a small, slender dagger.
- pop art — an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.
- popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- porangi — crazy; mad
- porirua — a city in New Zealand, on the North Island just north of Wellington. Pop: 50 600 (2004 est)
- porsena — Lars (lɑːz). 6th century bc, a legendary Etruscan king, alleged to have besieged Rome in a vain attempt to reinstate Tarquinius Superbus on the throne
- portage — a city in SW Michigan.
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- portman — a group of citizens of a town responsible for administering the affairs of that town
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- postwar — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war: postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
- potager — a small kitchen garden
- poulard — a hen spayed to improve the flesh for use as food.
- praetor — (in the ancient Roman republic) one of a number of elected magistrates charged chiefly with the administration of civil justice and ranking next below a consul.
- precoat — A precoat is a coating which is put on a filter to test the performance of the filter.
- preload — If someone preloads, they drink a lot of alcohol before they go out for a social occasion.
- preoral — situated in front of or before the mouth.
- presoak — to soak (laundry) in a liquid containing agents that loosen dirt, remove stains, etc., before washing.
- privado — a close friend
- pro-ana — of or relating to the belief that anorexia is a viable lifestyle choice rather than a disorder
- proagon — (in ancient Greek comedy) a disputatious exchange, sometimes of a slapstick nature, between the chorus and the characters, or among the characters themselves, usually following the parodos and preceding the agon.
- proball — believable; probable
- proband — a patient who is the initial member of a family to come under study.
- probang — a long, slender, elastic rod with a sponge, ball, or the like, at the end, to be introduced into the esophagus or larynx, as for removing foreign bodies, or for introducing medication.
- probate — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- procarp — (in red algae) a carpogonium with its associated cells.
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- proface — much good may it do you!
- profane — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- program — software
- prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
- pronaos — (in a classical temple) an open vestibule before the cella.