6-letter words containing p, e, n, r
- prance — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- preman — a precursor of the human being
- prenup — a prenuptial agreement.
- previn — André (ˈɒndreɪ). born 1929, US orchestral conductor, born in Germany; living in Britain; awarded an honorary knighthood (1996)
- prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
- procne — a princess of Athens, who punished her husband for raping her sister Philomela by feeding him the flesh of their son. She was changed at her death into a swallow
- proner — having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable: to be prone to anger.
- prones — a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- pronet — (language)
- proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- pruned — Archaic. to preen.
- pruner — to cut or lop off (twigs, branches, or roots).
- prunes — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- prynne — William, 1600–69, English Puritan leader and pamphleteer.
- pterin — any of a group of substances which occur naturally as insect pigments
- pteron — (in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- punker — Slang. something or someone worthless or unimportant. a young ruffian; hoodlum. an inexperienced youth. a young male partner of a homosexual. an apprentice, especially in the building trades. Prison Slang. a boy.
- punner — a rammer for compacting earth or fresh concrete.
- punter — Cards. a person who lays a stake against the bank.
- purine — a white, crystalline compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 , from which is derived a group of compounds including uric acid, xanthine, and caffeine.
- pyrene — a polycyclic, aromatic crystalline hydrocarbon, C 1 6 H 1 0 , consisting of four fused benzene rings, found in coal tar and believed to be carcinogenic.
- pyrone — either of two heterocyclic ketones having the formula C 5 H 4 O 2 .
- rapine — the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- rappen — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Switzerland; centime.
- reopen — shop: open again
- repand — Botany. having a wavy margin, as a leaf.
- repent — to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regret or be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc. (often followed by of): He repented after his thoughtless act.
- repine — to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- replan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- repone — to restore (someone) to his or her former status, office, etc; rehabilitate
- repton — Humphry. 1752–1818, English landscape gardener
- repugn — to oppose or refute.
- ripken — Calvin Edward, Jr ("Cal"; "Iron Man") born 1960, U.S. baseball player.
- sniper — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- spener — Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- sprent — sprinkled.
- spurne — to spur
- trepan — a person who ensnares or entraps others.
- unpure — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- unripe — not ripe; immature; not fully developed: unripe fruit.
- unrope — to release oneself by untying a rope