6-letter words containing p, r, e, s
- speyer — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine.
- sphere — Geometry. a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 . the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
- sphery — having the form of a sphere; spherelike.
- spider — any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- spiker — a pointed, perforated tube connected to a garden hose, pushed into the soil for deep watering.
- spirea — any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- spired — having a spire.
- spires — a coil or spiral.
- splore — a frolic; revel; carousal.
- spores — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- sprees — a river in E Germany, flowing N through Berlin to the Havel River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- sprent — sprinkled.
- sprier — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- sprite — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- spruce — any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales.
- spurge — any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia, having a milky juice and flowers with no petals or sepals.
- spurne — to spur
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- streep — Meryl, original name Mary Louise Streep. born 1949, US actress. Her films include The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1986), The Hours (2002), Mamma Mia! (2008), and The Iron Lady (2011)
- stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
- super- — Super- is used to form adjectives which indicate that something is at a higher level than something else.
- superb — admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: a superb performance.
- superl — superlative
- supper — the evening meal, often the principal meal of the day.
- swiper — a person who deals a swipe
- sypher — to join (boards having beveled edges) so as to make a flush surface.
- trapes — 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.
- tripes — the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- uprest — an uprising
- uprise — to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
- uprose — simple past tense of uprise.
- vesper — (initial capital letter) the evening star, especially Venus; Hesperus.
- wipers — Plural form of wiper.