7-letter words containing p, a, t, r
- partway — at or to a part of the way or distance: Shall I walk you partway? I'm already partway home.
- partyer — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- parvati — the wife of Shiva and the benevolent form of the Mother Goddess.
- pastern — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- patinir — Joachim (ˈjəʊəkɪm). ?1485–1524, Flemish painter, noted esp for the landscapes in his paintings on religious themes
- patmore — Coventry (Kersey Dighton) [kov-uh n-tree kur-zee dahyt-n,, duhv-uh n‐] /ˈkɒv ən tri ˈkɜr zi ˈdaɪt n,, ˈdʌv ən‐/ (Show IPA), 1823–96, English poet and essayist.
- patriae — Latin. father of his country.
- patrial — a native of any country who, by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent in Great Britain, has citizenship and residency rights there.
- patrick — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
- patrico — a fraudulent priest
- patriot — a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.
- patroon — a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- pattern — a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.
- paydirt — soil, gravel, or ore that can be mined profitably.
- peatary — an area covered with peat; peat bog
- peatier — of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
- periapt — an amulet.
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- persant — sharp or stabbing
- pertain — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- petrale — a variety of flounder, native to the Pacific coast of North America and commonly caught for food
- petrary — a weapon used to propel stones
- philtra — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- phorate — a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 1 7 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- phratry — a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
- 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.
- picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
- pirated — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- plaiter — a person who plaits something such as wool, hair, or threads
- plantar — of or relating to the sole of the foot.
- planter — a person who plants.
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
- pleater — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plectra — plectrum.
- pop art — an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.
- portage — a city in SW Michigan.
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- portman — a group of citizens of a town responsible for administering the affairs of that town
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- postwar — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war: postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
- potager — a small kitchen garden
- practic — practical.
- praetor — (in the ancient Roman republic) one of a number of elected magistrates charged chiefly with the administration of civil justice and ranking next below a consul.
- prakrit — any of the vernacular Indic languages of the ancient and medieval periods, as distinguished from Sanskrit.