6-letter words containing a, p, r
- ripsaw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- rupiah — an aluminum coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Indonesia, equal to 100 sen. Abbreviation: Rp.
- sanpro — sanitary-protection products, collectively
- sapour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- sapper — a soldier employed in the construction of fortifications, trenches, or tunnels that approach or undermine enemy positions.
- sapro- — indicating dead or decaying matter
- sarape — serape.
- satrap — a governor of a province under the ancient Persian monarchy.
- scarph — to assemble with a scarf joint.
- scrape — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scraps — pieces of discarded food
- scrawp — to scratch (the skin) to relieve itching
- secpar — (in astronomy) a unit of distance equivalent to 3.262 light years
- serape — a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- seraph — one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6.
- shairp — John Campbell ("Principal Shairp") 1819–85, English critic, poet, and educator.
- shaper — a person or thing that shapes.
- sharpe — William Forsyth [fawr-sahyth] /ˈfɔr saɪθ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- sharps — something sharp.
- sharpy — sharpie.
- sherpa — a member of a people of Tibetan stock living in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
- sippar — an ancient Babylonian city on the Euphrates, in SE Iraq.
- soaper — soap opera.
- sophar — Zophar.
- spacer — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spares — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- sparge — a sprinkling.
- sparid — any of numerous fishes of the family Sparidae, chiefly inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas, comprising the porgies, the scups, etc.
- sparke — a battle-axe
- sparks — an elegant or foppish young man.
- sparky — emitting or producing sparks.
- sparry — of or relating to mineral spar.
- sparse — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- sparta — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- sparth — a type of battle-axe
- sparti — Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- spears — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- speary — resembling or characteristic of spears
- spinar — a fast-spinning star or celestial mass
- spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spirea — 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.
- sporal — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sprack — alert and vigorous
- spraid — chapped
- sprain — to overstrain or wrench (the ligaments of an ankle, wrist, or other joint) so as to injure without fracture or dislocation.
- sprang — a simple past tense of spring.
- sprawl — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- sproat — a fishhook having a circular bend.