6-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- perfin — a postage stamp having perforated initials punched into the paper: used by businesses to prevent unauthorized use of stamps.
- period — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
- perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perkin — Sir William Henry, 1838–1907, English chemist.
- perlis — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- permie — a person, esp an office worker, employed by a firm on a permanent basis
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- pernik — former name of Dimitrovo.
- pernio — chilblain.
- perrin — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1870–1942, French physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in physics 1926.
- persia — Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- persis — an ancient region of SW Iran: homeland of the Achaemenid dynasty
- petrie — Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- picker — someone or something that picks.
- piecer — a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work.
- pierce — to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
- piercy — Marge, born 1936, U.S. poet and novelist.
- pieria — a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- pierid — belonging or pertaining to the Pieridae, a family of butterflies comprising the whites, sulfurs, etc.
- pieris — any plant of a genus, Pieris, of American and Asiatic shrubs, esp P. formosa forrestii, grown for the bright red colour of its young foliage: family Ericaceae
- pierre — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- pilfer — steal in small amounts
- pincer — insect, crab: claws
- pinder — peanut.
- pinero — Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- pinery — a place in which pineapples are grown.
- pinger — a device that makes a pinging sound, esp one that can be preset to ring at a particular time
- pinker — a color varying from light crimson to pale reddish purple.
- pinner — a person or thing that pins.
- pinter — Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- pipper — the center of the reticule of a gunsight.
- pirate — software pirate
- pirnie — a stripy woollen nightcap
- pisher — a young boy or person who still has little experience
- pisser — something extremely difficult or unpleasant.
- pitier — a person who pities.
- pitter — to make a pattering sound
- pliers — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- poiret — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1944, French fashion designer.
- poiser — a person or thing that poises.
- pokier — puttering; slow; dull: poky drivers.
- pourie — a jug; pitcher
- praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- pratie — a potato
- prebid — occurring prior to a bid
- precis — a concise summary.
- prefix — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- prelim — preliminary.
- premix — Also, premixture [pree-miks-cher] /priˈmɪks tʃər/ (Show IPA). a mixture of ingredients, made before selling, using, etc.: The chain saw runs on a premix of oil and gasoline.