6-letter words containing a, p, r
- patrix — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patron — (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
- 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.
- pavior — a person that paves; paver.
- 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
- pharma — a pharmaceutical company.
- pharos — a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- phasor — a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- 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.
- phrasy — characterized by the use of many phrases
- phreak — phone phreak.
- phwoar — an admiring sound, roughly same as 'cor'; used to denote sexual attraction to another person
- phylar — of or relating to a major taxonomic division of living organisms that contain one or more classes
- picara — a woman who is a rogue or vagabond.
- picard — Charles Émile [sharl ey-meel] /ʃarl eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1941, French mathematician.
- picaro — a rogue or vagabond.
- pieria — a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- pillar — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- pinard — wine.
- pindar — 522?–443? b.c, Greek poet.
- piracy — software piracy
- pirate — software pirate
- placer — a person who sets things in their place or arranges them.
- planar — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- 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.
- plural — consisting of, containing, or pertaining to more than one.
- polari — 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.