6-letter words containing a, s, r
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.
- pasear — to go for a rambling walk or paseo
- passer — a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
- paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- patras — Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
- patres — dead.
- 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).
- pearse — Patrick (Henry), Irish name Pádraic. 1879–1916, Irish nationalist, who planned and led the Easter Rising (1916): executed by the British
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prasad — Rajendra [rah-jen-druh] /rɑˈdʒɛn drə/ (Show IPA), 1884–1963, first president of the Republic of India 1950–62.
- prases — a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- praxes — practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- praxis — practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- prespa — Lake, a lake on the borders of E Albania, SW Macedonia, and N Greece: drains underground NW to Lake Ohrid. 112 sq. mi. (290 sq. km).
- psywar — psychological warfare.
- pulsar — Astronomy. one of several hundred known celestial objects, generally believed to be rapidly rotating neutron stars, that emit pulses of radiation, especially radio waves, with a high degree of regularity.
- quarks — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- quarts — Plural form of quart.
- quasar — one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
- r:base — (database) An MS-DOS 4GL from Microrim based on the minicomputer DBMS RIM.
- rabbis — Plural form of rabbi.
- rabies — an infectious disease of dogs, cats, and other animals, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal and usually fatal if prophylactic treatment is not administered: caused by an RNA virus of the rhabdovirus group; hydrophobia.
- racers — Plural form of racer.
- racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
- rachis — Botany. the axis of an inflorescence when somewhat elongated, as in a raceme. (in a pinnately compound leaf or frond) the prolongation of the petiole along which the leaflets are disposed. any of various axial structures.
- racism — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racons — Plural form of racon.
- radars — Plural form of radar.
- radish — the crisp, pungent, edible root of the plant, Raphanus sativus, of the mustard family, usually eaten raw.
- radius — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- ragusa — a province in SE Italy.
- raised — fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.
- raiser — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- raisin — a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- rakish — smart; jaunty; dashing: a hat worn at a rakish angle.
- ramets — an individual of a clone.
- ramose — having many branches.
- ramous — ramose.
- ramsay — Allan, 1686–1758, Scottish poet.
- ramses — 1198–1167 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.