6-letter words containing p, r, i, s
- purist — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- rapids — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- repics — the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- reship — to ship again.
- ripest — having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- ripost — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- ripsaw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- riscpc — (computer) The final addition to Acorn's Archimedes family of personal computers, released in April 1994. The RiscPC allowed a second processor, e.g. an Intel 486 or a second ARM, to share the bus, memory and peripherals with the main processor. It also had full 24-bit colour graphics support. The Risc PC 600 (the first to be launched) had the new ARM600 processor and RISC OS 3.5. The RiscPC 700 had an ARM710 processor and RISC OS 3.6, and the SA had the StrongARM processor and RISC OS 3.7. RiscPCs are among the most energy efficient home computers.
- scrimp — to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed by on): They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
- script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- shairp — John Campbell ("Principal Shairp") 1819–85, English critic, poet, and educator.
- shrimp — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- simper — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- sippar — an ancient Babylonian city on the Euphrates, in SE Iraq.
- sipper — a person who sips.
- siprol — Signal Processing Language. A DSP language.
- sirupy — having the appearance or quality of syrup; thick or sweet: syrupy coffee.
- sitrep — a military situation report
- sniper — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- sparid — any of numerous fishes of the family Sparidae, chiefly inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas, comprising the porgies, the scups, etc.
- sparti — Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- 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.
- spinar — a fast-spinning star or celestial mass
- spinor — a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- 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.
- spiric — a type of curve
- spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- spiro- — indicating breath or respiration
- spirts — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spraid — chapped
- sprain — to overstrain or wrench (the ligaments of an ankle, wrist, or other joint) so as to injure without fracture or dislocation.
- sprier — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- spring — String PRocessING language
- sprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprite — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- sprits — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- spritz — to spray briefly and quickly; squirt: He spritzed a little soda in his drink.
- spruik — to make or give a speech, especially extensively or elaborately; spiel; orate.
- spruit — (in southern Africa) a small stream.
- stirps — a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
- stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
- stript — a simple past tense and past participle of strip1 .
- stripy — having or marked with stripes.
- swiper — a person who deals a swipe
- thrips — any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants.