6-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- parled — talk; parley.
- parley — a discussion or conference.
- parole — language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
- parore — a dark brownish-green fish, Girella tricuspidata of coastal and estuarine waters in New Zealand's North Island and Australia
- parpen — perpend1 .
- parred — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- parrel — Nautical. a sliding ring or collar of rope, wood, or metal that confines a yard or the jaws of a gaff to the mast but allows vertical movement.
- parsec — a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- parsee — an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- parser — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parted — partial; of a part: part owner.
- parter — a person or thing that parts; separator
- parure — a matching set of jewels or ornaments.
- pasear — to go for a rambling walk or paseo
- passer — a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
- paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
- patera — a shallow ancient Roman bowl used in rituals
- patier — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- patres — dead.
- patter — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- patzer — a casual, amateurish chess player.
- pauper — a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
- pawner — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- pearls — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearly — like a pearl, especially in being white or lustrous; nacreous: her pearly teeth.
- pearse — Patrick (Henry), Irish name Pádraic. 1879–1916, Irish nationalist, who planned and led the Easter Rising (1916): executed by the British
- pedlar — a person who sells from door to door or in the street.
- peoria — a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- peraea — a region in ancient Palestine, E of the Jordan and the Dead Sea.
- pereia — (in a crustacean) the thorax.
- perfay — truly, by my faith!
- perlea — Jonel [zhoh-nel] /ˈʒoʊ nɛl/ (Show IPA), 1900–70, U.S. conductor and composer, born in Romania.
- perma- — indicating a fixed state
- persia — Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- pesaro — a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- petara — (in India) a basket for clothes
- petard — an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
- petary — a place where peat is excavated; peatary
- phater — Slang. great; wonderful; terrific.
- pherae — (in ancient geography) a town in SE Thessaly: the home of Admetus and Alcestis.
- phrase — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phreak — phone phreak.
- pieria — a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- pirate — software pirate
- placer — a person who sets things in their place or arranges them.
- planer — Carpentry. a power machine for removing the rough or excess surface from a board.
- plater — a person or thing that plates.
- player — Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.
- pleura — Anatomy, Zoology. a delicate serous membrane investing each lung in mammals and folded back as a lining of the corresponding side of the thorax.
- popera — music drawing on opera or classical music and aiming for popular appeal