7-letter words containing a, p, r, i
- rapider — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- rapidly — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- rapping — a quick, smart, or light blow: a rap on the knuckles with a ruler.
- rappini — the leaves of the turnip, Brassica rapa, eaten cooked or raw as greens.
- rappist — Harmonist.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- reaping — to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- repaint — to paint again: to repaint the house.
- replica — a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
- rip-rap — broken stones loosely deposited in water or on a soft bottom to provide a foundation and protect a riverbed or river banks from scour: used for revetments, embankments, breakwaters, etc
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- sarapis — Serapis (def 1).
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- serapis — Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
- shapiro — Karl (Jay) 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.
- sharpie — sharper.
- spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
- sparing — kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
- sparkie — an electrician
- sparoid — resembling or pertaining to the porgy family, Sparidae.
- 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.
- spirant — fricative (def 2).
- spirula — any cephalopod of the genus Spirula, having a flat, spiral shell that is partly inside and partly outside the posterior part of the body.
- spraint — a piece of otter's dung
- spuriae — the feathers on the bastard wing of a bird
- tar pit — seepage of natural tar or asphalt, especially an accumulation that has acted as a natural trap into which animals have fallen and sunk and had their bones preserved.
- tarpeia — a vestal virgin who betrayed Rome to the Sabines and was crushed under their shields when she claimed a reward.
- tipcart — a cart with a body that can be tipped or tilted to empty it of its contents.
- topiary — (of a plant) clipped or trimmed into fantastic shapes.
- toprail — the uppermost rail of the back of a chair or the like; a crest rail.
- 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.
- trapani — a seaport in NW Sicily.
- tripack — a superimposition of three photographic plates or films
- tripart — divided into three parts.
- triptan — any of various drugs used to treat migraine headaches
- tripura — a state in E India. 4033 sq. mi. (10,445 sq. km). Capital: Agartala.
- tropaia — a tropaeum, especially in Greece.
- udaipur — a city in S Rajasthan, in NW India.
- upbraid — to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice.
- upraise — to raise up; lift or elevate.
- uprisal — a rising up
- upstair — up the stairs; to or on an upper floor.
- uptrain — to train up, to teach or educate
- vampire — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- warping — to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
- warship — a ship built or armed for combat purposes.
- whipray — any ray having a long, whiplike tail, especially a stingray.
- wiretap — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.