7-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- 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
- lipread — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- np-hard — (complexity) A set or property of computational search problems. A problem is NP-hard if solving it in polynomial time would make it possible to solve all problems in class NP in polynomial time. Some NP-hard problems are also in NP (these are called "NP-complete"), some are not. If you could reduce an NP problem to an NP-hard problem and then solve it in polynomial time, you could solve all NP problems. See also computational complexity.
- operand — a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
- paddler — a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
- padrino — a godfather.
- padrone — a master; boss.
- padroni — a master; boss.
- pagurid — a pagurian.
- pandora — Classical Mythology. the first woman, created by Hephaestus, endowed by the gods with all the graces and treacherously presented to Epimetheus along with a box (originally a jar) in which Prometheus had confined all the evils that could trouble humanity. As the gods had anticipated, Pandora gave in to her curiosity and opened the box, allowing the evils to escape, thereby frustrating the efforts of Prometheus. In some versions, the box contained blessings, all of which escaped but hope.
- pandore — an obsolete musical instrument resembling the guitar.
- pandour — History/Historical. a member of a local militia in Croatia, formed as a regiment in the Austrian army in the 18th century and noted for its ruthlessness and cruelty.
- pandrop — a hard mint-flavoured sweet
- pandura — a Graeco-Roman stringed instrument, similar to a lute
- pandure — bandore.
- parador — a government-sponsored inn in Spain, usually in a scenic or historic area, that offers lodging and meals at reasonable prices.
- parados — a bank of earth built behind a trench or military emplacement to protect soldiers from a surprise attack from the rear.
- paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- parched — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- pardine — spotted; resembling a leopard
- pardner — (in direct address) friend.
- parkade — a building or other construction designed for the parking of motor vehicles.
- 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.
- parodos — (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.
- pc card — Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
- pedlary — peddlery.
- 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
- per day — relating to an allowance for daily expenses, usually those incurred while working
- 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 .
- pervade — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- phaedra — the wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and eventually hanged herself after causing his death.
- phrased — 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- placard — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- pleader — a person who pleads, especially at law.
- pochard — an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
- podagra — gouty inflammation of the great toe.
- pollard — a tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of branches.
- pommard — a dry, red wine from the Pommard parish in Burgundy.
- poniard — a small, slender dagger.