7-letter words containing d, r, o, p
- nondrip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
- nord pl — Intermediate language for Norsk Data computers. Sintran III, the operating system of the ND 10 (late 1970's), was written in NORD PL.
- operand — a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
- padrino — a godfather.
- padrone — a master; boss.
- padroni — a master; boss.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- pedrero — a type of short-barrelled cannon used to fire stones, nails, broken-iron, etc
- pedro i — (Dom Pedro) 1798–1834, king of Portugal (1826, as Pedro IV) and first emperor of Brazil 1822–31.
- 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).
- peridot — a green transparent variety of olivine, used as a gem.
- 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.
- pledgor — a person who deposits personal property as a pledge.
- plodder — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- pochard — an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
- podagra — gouty inflammation of the great toe.
- poinder — a person who protects and cares for hedges, woods, etc
- 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.
- poor-do — scrapple.
- portend — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- poulard — a hen spayed to improve the flesh for use as food.
- pounder — a person or thing having or associated with a weight or value of a pound or a specified number of pounds (often used in combination): He caught only one fish, but it was an eight-pounder.
- powdery — consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.
- powered — operated or driven by a motor or electricity: a power mower; power tools.
- precode — a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message: Morse code.
- predoom — to pronounce or preordain (someone or something's) doom beforehand
- preload — If someone preloads, they drink a lot of alcohol before they go out for a social occasion.
- presold — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- privado — a close friend
- proband — a patient who is the initial member of a family to come under study.
- proceed — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.
- prodded — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- prodder — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- prodigy — a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability: a musical prodigy.
- prodrug — an inactive substance that is converted to a drug within the body by the action of enzymes or other chemicals.
- produce — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.