7-letter words containing i, p, r
- petitor — a seeker; an applicant or candidate.
- petrify — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- petrine — of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
- philter — a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
- philtra — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- philtre — philter.
- phisher — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phrenic — Anatomy. of or relating to the diaphragm.
- phrixus — a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
- phrygia — an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor.
- piarist — a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- piaster — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- piastre — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- pibgorn — an ancient wind instrument of Wales resembling the hornpipe.
- pibroch — (in the Scottish Highlands) a piece of music for the bagpipe, consisting of a series of variations on a basic theme, usually martial in character, but sometimes used as a dirge.
- 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.
- picamar — a hydrocarbon oil extracted from beechwood tar
- 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.
- pickeer — to engage in skirmishes in advance of troops of an army.
- pickery — petty theft
- picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
- picrite — a granular igneous rock composed chiefly of olivine and augite, but containing small amounts of feldspar.
- picture — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piddler — to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed by around): He wasted the day piddling around.
- piefort — piedfort.
- pienaar — (Jacobus) François. born 1967, South African Rugby Union footballer; captain of the South African team that won the Rugby World Cup in 1995
- pierage — a fee that is charged to use a pier to accommodate a boat, ship, etc
- pierced — punctured or perforated, as to form a decorative design: a pendant in pierced copper.
- piercer — to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
- pierian — of or relating to the Muses.
- pierogi — a small dough envelope filled with mashed potato, meat, cheese, or vegetables, crimped to seal the edge and then boiled or fried, typically served with sour cream or onions.
- pierrot — a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
- piffero — a type of small rustic oboe from Italy
- piffler — someone who talks nonsense
- piggery — a pigsty or pig breeder's establishment.
- pignora — property held as security for a debt.
- pilcher — a scabbard for a sword, or a similar outer covering
- pilcorn — a type of oat (Avena nuda) with an edible seed that can be husked easily
- pilcrow — a paragraph mark.
- pilfery — theft
- pilgrim — a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- pillory — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- pilsner — a pale, light lager beer.
- pilular — of, relating to, or resembling pills.
- pincers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pincher — a person or thing that pinches.
- pindari — in India in the past, someone belonging to one of many irregular groups of raiding horsemen
- pinfire — of or relating to a cartridge fitted with a pin that, when struck by the hammer of the firearm, causes the cartridge to explode.
- pingler — someone who fiddles with their food and eats little of it