7-letter words containing p, e, r, l
- hirpled — Simple past tense and past participle of hirple.
- impaler — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- impearl — to form into drops resembling pearls.
- imperil — to put in peril or danger; endanger.
- implore — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- kerflop — with or as if with a flop: He fell kerflop.
- lampern — The European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis.
- lampers — lampas.
- lamprey — any eellike marine or freshwater fish of the order Petromyzoniformes, having a circular, suctorial mouth with horny teeth for boring into the flesh of other fishes to feed on their blood.
- lapsers — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- leapers — Plural form of leaper.
- lempira — a paper money and monetary unit of Honduras, equal to 100 centavos. Abbreviation: L.
- leopard — a large, spotted Asian or African carnivore, Panthera pardus, of the cat family, usually tawny with black markings; the Old World panther: all leopard populations are threatened or endangered.
- leporid — an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- leppard — Raymond. born 1927, British conductor and musicologist, in the US from 1977: noted esp for his revivals of early opera
- leproma — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leprose — leprous.
- leprosy — a chronic, mildly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the peripheral nervous system, skin, and nasal mucosa and variously characterized by ulcerations, tubercular nodules, and loss of sensation that sometimes leads to traumatic amputation of the anesthetized part.
- leprous — Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- let rip — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- lipread — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- liriope — any of several plants belonging to the genus Liriope, of the lily family, having tufted, grasslike leaves and clusters of small bluish or white flowers.
- loopers — Plural form of looper.
- loppers — long-handled pruning shears.
- lumpers — Plural form of lumper.
- lumpier — Comparative form of lumpy.
- opercle — an operculum, especially the posterior bone of the operculum of a fish.
- overlap — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overply — to ply too much
- paddler — a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
- palaver — a conference or discussion.
- palermo — an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
- palfrey — a riding horse, as distinguished from a war horse.
- pantler — a pantry servant
- parable — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- parella — any of various lichens, esp Lecanora parella
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parnell — Charles Stewart, 1846–91, Irish political leader.
- parolee — a person who is released from prison on parole.
- parsley — an herb, Pertoselinum crispum, native to the Mediterranean, having either curled leaf clusters (French parsley) or flat compound leaves (Italian parsley) widely cultivated for use in garnishing or seasoning food. Compare parsley family.
- partlet — a garment for the neck and shoulders, usually ruffled and having a collar, worn in the 16th century.
- parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
- pearler — a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object: valued as a gem when lustrous and finely colored. Compare cultured pearl.
- pearlin — a type of lace used to trim clothes
- peddler — a person who sells from door to door or in the street.
- pedlary — peddlery.
- pedlery — peddlery.
- pedrail — a type of wheel designed for use on rough terrain, consisting of a chain around the wheel with flat discs attached to the chain
- peloria — regularity of structure occurring abnormally in flowers normally irregular.
- pelorus — a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.