7-letter words containing a, p, u, r
- pandure — bandore.
- panurge — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- papular — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
- papyrus — a tall, aquatic plant, Cyperus papyrus, of the sedge family, native to the Nile valley: the Egyptian subspecies, C. papyrus hadidii, thought to be common in ancient times, now occurs only in several sites.
- parakou — a city in E central Benin.
- paramus — a city in NE New Jersey.
- parkour — the sport of moving along a route, typically in a city, trying to get around or through various obstacles in the quickest and most efficient manner possible, as by jumping, climbing, or running: his amazing parkour skills.
- parlour — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parlous — perilous; dangerous.
- parquet — a floor composed of short strips or blocks of wood forming a pattern, sometimes with inlays of other woods or other materials.
- parture — departure
- parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
- parulis — gumboil.
- parvenu — a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- paviour — a person that paves; paver.
- perugia — a city in central Umbria, in central Italy.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- pilular — of, relating to, or resembling pills.
- piraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- piragua — Also, pirogue. a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.
- 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.
- popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- porirua — a city in New Zealand, on the North Island just north of Wellington. Pop: 50 600 (2004 est)
- poulard — a hen spayed to improve the flesh for use as food.
- prepupa — an insect in the nonfeeding, inactive stage between the larval period and the pupal period.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- primula — primrose (def 1).
- prussia — a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles)
- puberal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pugaree — pugree.
- pugmark — pug4 (def 1).
- puranic — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- purbach — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- puritan — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- purpart — a purparty.
- purpura — a disease characterized by purple or brownish-red spots on the skin or mucous membranes, caused by the extravasation of blood.
- pursual — the act of pursuit
- purusha — (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
- rack up — ruin or destruction; wrack.
- rake up — an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.
- ramp up — intensify effort, work
- rangpur — a variety of mandarin orange, bearing a tart fruit.
- rap out — If you rap out an order or a question, you say it quickly and sharply.
- rapture — ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
- rark up — to give (someone) a severe reprimand
- raupatu — the confiscation or seizure of land