7-letter words containing p, e, r, a, c
- percale — a closely woven, smooth-finished, plain or printed cotton cloth, used for bed sheets, clothing, etc.
- percase — maybe; perhaps
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
- pescara — a city in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- phacker — (communications, security) A telephone system cracker. A phacker may attempt to gain unauthorised access to a phone system in order to make free or untraceable calls or he may disrupt, alter or illegally tap phone systems via computer. The disruptions may include causing a phone line to be engaged so no calls go in or out, redirecting outgoing or incoming calls, as well as listening to actual calls made. Phackers are frequently confidence tricksters or phone freaks (nuisance callers who can only relate to other people by phone). Phackers are sometimes employed by illegal enterprises to conduct business using untraceable calls, or to disrupt, or follow legal authorities' investigations. Phackers interventions may be lethal to the person being phacked. A phacker may be a phone company employee, or usually, ex-employee who specialises in illegal phone system disruption, alteration or tapping via physically altering installations. A phacker is generally considered to be a socially and intellectually retarded cracker. See Captain Crunch.
- picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
- plancer — the soffit of a cornice, especially one of wood.
- plectra — plectrum.
- poacher — a pan having a tight-fitting lid and metal cups for steaming or poaching eggs.
- polacre — a three-masted sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean
- pranced — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- prancer — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- precava — See under vena cava.
- precoat — A precoat is a coating which is put on a filter to test the performance of the filter.
- preface — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- prepack — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- prerace — of the period before a race
- proface — much good may it do you!
- reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
- repatch — to patch again
- replace — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replica — a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
- respace — to change the spacing of
- scalper — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scamper — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scarper — to flee or depart suddenly, especially without having paid one's bills.
- scauper — a graver with a flattened or hollowed blade, used in engraving.
- scraper — a person or thing that scrapes.
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
- spectra — a plural of spectrum.
- upreach — to reach upwards