7-letter words containing a, p, r, i
- piscary — Law. the right or privilege of fishing in particular waters.
- pizarro — Francisco [fran-sis-koh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), c1470–1541, Spanish conqueror of Peru.
- plainer — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plaiter — a person who plaits something such as wool, hair, or threads
- 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.
- poniard — a small, slender dagger.
- porangi — crazy; mad
- porirua — a city in New Zealand, on the North Island just north of Wellington. Pop: 50 600 (2004 est)
- practic — practical.
- prairie — a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- praised — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- praiser — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prakrit — any of the vernacular Indic languages of the ancient and medieval periods, as distinguished from Sanskrit.
- praline — a French confection consisting of a caramel-covered almond or, sometimes, a hazelnut.
- prating — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- pravity — depravity, moral degeneracy, perversion
- pray-in — a form of social protest in which demonstrators engage in passive resistance and prayer: popular especially in the 1970s.
- praying — uttering prayers (to God or other object of worship)
- predial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- prepaid — to pay or arrange to pay beforehand or before due: to prepay the loan.
- prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- priapic — (sometimes initial capital letter) of or relating to Priapus; phallic.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- pridian — relating to yesterday
- primacy — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primage — a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.
- primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primula — primrose (def 1).
- pripyat — a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- prisage — the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported.
- privacy — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privado — a close friend
- private — privacy
- propria — a nonessential property common to all the members of a class; attribute.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- proxima — a flare star in the constellation Centaurus that is the nearest star to the sun. It is a red dwarf of very low magnitude. Distance: 4.3 light years
- prussia — a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles)
- ptarmic — a material that causes sneezing
- puranic — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- puritan — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- pyralid — any of numerous slender-bodied moths of the family Pyralidae, having elongated triangular forewings, and in the larval phase including many crop pests.
- pyramid — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- pyrexia — fever.
- rampike — a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.
- ramping — a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- rampion — a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- rapacki — Adam (ˈadam). 1909–70, Polish politician: foreign minister (1956–68): proposed (1957) the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany (the Rapacki Plan): rejected by the West because of Soviet predominance in conventional weapons
- raphide — any of numerous needle-shaped crystals, usually of calcium oxalate, that occur in many plant cells as a metabolic product
- rapidan — a river in N Virginia, flowing E from the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Rappahannock River: Civil War battle 1862.