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7-letter words containing d, i, p, r

  • lipread — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
  • nondrip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
  • padrino — a godfather.
  • padroni — a master; boss.
  • pagurid — a pagurian.
  • pardine — spotted; resembling a leopard
  • parodic — having or of the nature of a parody.
  • parodoi — (in ancient Greek drama) an ode sung by the chorus at their entrance, usually beginning the play and preceding the proagōn in comedy or the alteration of epeisodia and stasima in tragedy.
  • parotid — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
  • parried — to ward off (a thrust, stroke, weapon, etc.), as in fencing; avert.
  • partied — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
  • paydirt — soil, gravel, or ore that can be mined profitably.
  • pedrail — a type of wheel designed for use on rough terrain, consisting of a chain around the wheel with flat discs attached to the chain
  • pedro i — (Dom Pedro) 1798–1834, king of Portugal (1826, as Pedro IV) and first emperor of Brazil 1822–31.
  • peracid — an oxyacid, the primary element of which is in its highest possible oxidation state, as perchloric acid, HClO 4 , and permanganic acid, HMnO 4 .
  • percoid — belonging to the Percoidea, a group of acanthopterygian fishes comprising the true perches and related families, and constituting one of the largest natural groups of fishes.
  • perdido — Mon·te [Spanish mawn-te] /Spanish ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA) a mountain in NE Spain, a peak of the Pyrenees. 10,994 feet (3350 meters).
  • perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
  • peridot — a green transparent variety of olivine, used as a gem.
  • perinde — (in prescriptions) in the same manner as before.
  • perseid — any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
  • picador — one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance.
  • picardy — a region in N France: formerly a province.
  • piccard — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1884–1962, Swiss physicist, aeronaut, inventor, and deep-sea explorer: designer of bathyscaphes.
  • piddler — to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed by around): He wasted the day piddling around.
  • pierced — punctured or perforated, as to form a decorative design: a pendant in pierced copper.
  • pindari — in India in the past, someone belonging to one of many irregular groups of raiding horsemen
  • pirated — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
  • poinder — a person who protects and cares for hedges, woods, etc
  • poniard — a small, slender dagger.
  • praised — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • prebind — to bind beforehand
  • predial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
  • predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
  • predive — happening or carried out before a dive
  • prepaid — to pay or arrange to pay beforehand or before due: to prepay the loan.
  • preside — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
  • pridian — relating to yesterday
  • priding — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • printed — produced by printing
  • privado — a close friend
  • prodigy — a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability: a musical prodigy.
  • proteid — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • provide — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
  • prudish — excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
  • pryderi — the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon who was stolen by Gwawl shortly after his birth and was restored to his parents a few years later.
  • pyralid — any of numerous slender-bodied moths of the family Pyralidae, having elongated triangular forewings, and in the larval phase including many crop pests.
  • pyramid — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
  • pyridic — relating to pyridine
  • raphide — any of numerous needle-shaped crystals, usually of calcium oxalate, that occur in many plant cells as a metabolic product
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