7-letter words containing a, p, r
- pierage — a fee that is charged to use a pier to accommodate a boat, ship, etc
- pierian — of or relating to the Muses.
- pignora — property held as security for a debt.
- pilular — of, relating to, or resembling pills.
- pindari — in India in the past, someone belonging to one of many irregular groups of raiding horsemen
- piraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- piragua — Also, pirogue. a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.
- piranha — any of several small South American freshwater fishes of the genus Serrasalmus that eat other fish and sometimes plants but occasionally also attack humans and other large animals that enter the water.
- pirated — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- 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.
- placard — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- 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
- plancer — the soffit of a cornice, especially one of wood.
- planner — a person who plans.
- plantar — of or relating to the sole of the foot.
- planter — a person who plants.
- plasher — a person who forms hedges by means of interweaving the branches or vines
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
- pleader — a person who pleads, especially at law.
- pleaser — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- pleater — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plectra — plectrum.
- plenary — full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified: plenary powers.
- pleroma — the state of total fullness or abundance, relating particularly to the nature of God
- pleurae — Anatomy, Zoology. a delicate serous membrane investing each lung in mammals and folded back as a lining of the corresponding side of the thorax.
- pleural — Anatomy. of or relating to the pleura.
- poacher — a pan having a tight-fitting lid and metal cups for steaming or poaching eggs.
- pochard — an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
- podagra — gouty inflammation of the great toe.
- polacre — a three-masted sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean
- 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.
- polaron — a kind of electron
- pollard — a tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of branches.
- pollera — a gaily colored costume worn by women during fiestas in Latin-American countries.
- pommard — a dry, red wine from the Pommard parish in Burgundy.
- poniard — a small, slender dagger.
- pop art — an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.
- popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- porangi — crazy; mad
- porirua — a city in New Zealand, on the North Island just north of Wellington. Pop: 50 600 (2004 est)
- porsena — Lars (lɑːz). 6th century bc, a legendary Etruscan king, alleged to have besieged Rome in a vain attempt to reinstate Tarquinius Superbus on the throne
- portage — a city in SW Michigan.
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- portman — a group of citizens of a town responsible for administering the affairs of that town
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- postwar — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war: postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
- potager — a small kitchen garden