7-letter words containing a, p, r
- halpern — Daniel, born 1945, U.S. poet and editor.
- hampers — Plural form of hamper.
- hanaper — a wicker receptacle for documents.
- happier — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- haptera — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- harappa — a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.
- hard up — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hardpan — any layer of firm detrital matter, as of clay, underlying soft soil. Compare caliche, duricrust.
- hardtop — a style of car having a rigid metal top and no center posts between windows.
- harelip — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- harnpan — The brainpan; the skull.
- harp on — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- harpers — Plural form of harper.
- harpies — Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
- harping — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- harpist — a person who plays the harp, especially professionally.
- harpoon — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- harumph — An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, refusal or dismissal.
- heparin — Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- hypural — relating to the bones of the area below the tail of fish
- igarapé — (in Brazil) a route that is navigable by canoes
- impairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impair.
- impaler — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- imparks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impark.
- imparts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impart.
- impearl — to form into drops resembling pearls.
- imperia — a seaport in NW Italy.
- impresa — a device or emblem.
- in part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- jaspers — a city in NW Alabama.
- jaspery — containing or composed of jasper.
- jawrope — a rope tied across the jaw of a gaff to hold it to the mast.
- jeopard — to jeopardize.
- karmapa — the head of the Kagyupa, Karma Kagyu or Black Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism, third in importance in the hierarchy of lamas
- kiepura — Jan (Wiktor) [yahn vik-tawr] /yɑn ˈvɪk tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1904?–66, Polish tenor.
- kirpans — Plural form of kirpan.
- knapper — One who knaps.
- lampern — The European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis.
- lampers — lampas.
- lamprey — any eellike marine or freshwater fish of the order Petromyzoniformes, having a circular, suctorial mouth with horny teeth for boring into the flesh of other fishes to feed on their blood.
- laparo- — the flank, the abdominal wall
- lapsers — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- laptray — a tray with a cushioned underside, designed to rest in a person's lap while supporting reading material, a meal eaten while watching television, etc
- lapwork — a type of craftwork in which there are parts or edges that overlap each other
- larrups — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of larrup.
- leapers — Plural form of leaper.
- lempira — a paper money and monetary unit of Honduras, equal to 100 centavos. Abbreviation: L.
- leopard — a large, spotted Asian or African carnivore, Panthera pardus, of the cat family, usually tawny with black markings; the Old World panther: all leopard populations are threatened or endangered.
- leppard — Raymond. born 1927, British conductor and musicologist, in the US from 1977: noted esp for his revivals of early opera
- leproma — the swollen lesion of leprosy.