7-letter words containing p, r, a, t
- satrapy — the province or jurisdiction of a satrap.
- seaport — a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- spartan — Also, Spartanic [spahr-tan-ik] /spɑrˈtæn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to Sparta or its people.
- spatter — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spectra — a plural of spectrum.
- spirant — fricative (def 2).
- spraint — a piece of otter's dung
- stamper — a person or thing that stamps.
- stapler — a person who staples wool.
- startup — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- strappy — A strappy dress or top has thin shoulder straps.
- subpart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- suntrap — sunny enclosed area
- t-strap — a strap on the upper of a shoe that extends backward from the vamp and joins with a strap that crosses the upper part of the instep, forming a T .
- tampere — a city in SW Finland.
- tapered — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- taproom — a barroom, especially in an inn or hotel; bar.
- taproot — a main root descending downward from the radicle and giving off small lateral roots.
- tapster — a bartender.
- tapstry — a tap-room in a public house
- tar pit — seepage of natural tar or asphalt, especially an accumulation that has acted as a natural trap into which animals have fallen and sunk and had their bones preserved.
- tarpeia — a vestal virgin who betrayed Rome to the Sabines and was crushed under their shields when she claimed a reward.
- tart up — a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
- tear up — If something such as a road, railway, or area of land is torn up, it is completely removed or destroyed.
- tempera — a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- templar — a member of a religious military order founded by Crusaders in Jerusalem about 1118, and suppressed in 1312.
- tempura — seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- therapy — the treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitating, or curative process: speech therapy.
- tipcart — a cart with a body that can be tipped or tilted to empty it of its contents.
- toparch — the ruler of a small state or realm
- topiary — (of a plant) clipped or trimmed into fantastic shapes.
- toprail — the uppermost rail of the back of a chair or the like; a crest rail.
- traipse — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- tramped — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
- tramper — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
- trample — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- trapani — a seaport in NW Sicily.
- trapeze — an apparatus, used in gymnastics and acrobatics, consisting of a short horizontal bar attached to the ends of two suspended ropes.
- trapped — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
- trapper — a person or thing that traps.
- trepang — any of various holothurians or sea cucumbers, as Holothuria edulis, used as food in China.
- tripack — a superimposition of three photographic plates or films
- tripart — divided into three parts.
- triptan — any of various drugs used to treat migraine headaches
- tripura — a state in E India. 4033 sq. mi. (10,445 sq. km). Capital: Agartala.
- tropaia — a tropaeum, especially in Greece.
- typebar — (on a typewriter or some computer printers) one of a series of thin metal bars containing type and actuated by the keyboard or computer signal.
- unstrap — to take off or slacken the strap of.
- updater — to bring (a book, figures, or the like) up to date as by adding new information or making corrections: to update a science textbook.
- updraft — the movement upward of air or other gas.