5-letter words containing p, r, e
- leper — a person who has leprosy.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- loper — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- moper — to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
- mpret — a ruler or monarch
- neper — John, Napier, John.
- opera — a plural of opus.
- opers — Plural form of oper.
- orpen — Sir William Newenham Montague [noo-uh-nuh m,, nyoo-] /ˈnu ə nəm,, ˈnyu-/ (Show IPA), 1878–1931, Irish painter.
- pacer — a person or thing that paces.
- padre — father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
- pager — beeper (def 3).
- paler — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paper — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- parae — a former copper coin of Turkey, the 40th part of a piaster.
- pared — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
- pareo — pareu (def 2).
- pares — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
- pareu — lavalava.
- parev — containing neither meat nor milk products and so fit for use with either meat or milk dishes
- parge — to coat or cover with plaster
- parle — talk; parley.
- parse — parser
- parve — pareve.
- pater — Latin. father of his country.
- paver — a person or thing that paves.
- pawer — the foot of an animal having claws.
- payer — the act of paying or being paid; payment.
- pearl — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pears — the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- peart — lively; brisk; cheerful.
- peary — Robert Edwin, 1856–1920, U.S. admiral and arctic explorer.
- pedro — any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- peers — a person of the same legal status: a jury of one's peers.
- peery — a spinning top
- perak — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 7980 sq. mi. (20,668 sq. km). Capital: Ipoh.
- perch — a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
- percy — Sir Henry ("Hotspur") 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.
- perdu — hidden; concealed; obscured.
- peres — Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- perf. — perfect
- peri- — enclosing, encircling, or around
- peril — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- peris — one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- perks — to become lively, cheerful, or vigorous, as after depression or sickness (usually followed by up): The patients all perked up when we played the piano for them.
- perky — jaunty; cheerful; brisk; pert.
- perl5 — (language, tool) A commonly used but unofficial term for 5.* versions of Perl.
- perle — a medicinal capsule that resembles a pearl in shape.
- peron — Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- perry — a fermented beverage similar to cider, made from the juice of pears.