7-letter words containing p, r, i, s
- preship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- preside — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presift — to sift something preliminarily
- previse — to foresee.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- priests — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- primers — a person or thing that primes.
- primest — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- primsie — prim1 (def 1).
- prisage — the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported.
- prisere — a primary sere or succession from bare ground to the community climax
- prising — pry2 .
- prissie — a female given name, form of Priscilla.
- privies — participating in the knowledge of something private or secret (usually followed by to): Many persons were privy to the plot.
- promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosify — to write or make into prose (esp of a dull nature)
- prostie — a prostitute.
- protist — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proviso — a clause in a statute, contract, or the like, by which a condition is introduced.
- prudish — excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
- prussia — a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles)
- prussic — of or derived from prussic acid.
- pursily — in a pursy manner
- pursing — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- pursuit — the act of pursuing: in pursuit of the fox.
- pyrites — pyrite.
- pyrosis — heartburn (def 1).
- rappist — Harmonist.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- reflisp — (language) A small Lisp interpreter written in C++ by Bill Birch of Bull, UK. RefLisp has a built-in web server, Wiki, LISP server pages, SQL Databases, XML parser, MD5 hashing, regular expressions, reference counting and mark-sweep garbage collection. RefLisp has shallow-binding and dynamic scope with optional support for lexical scope, Common Lisp compatibility and for indefinite extent Scheme programs. RefLisp is distributed under the GPL.
- replies — to make answer in words or writing; answer; respond: to reply to a question.
- reposit — to put back; replace.
- reprise — Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
- respice — any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
- respire — to inhale and exhale air for the purpose of maintaining life; breathe.
- respite — a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief: to toil without respite.
- resplit — to split again
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- riposte — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- ripples — the repercussions of an event or situation experienced far beyond its immediate location
- ripstop — a type of woven fabric that is resistant against tears and rips
- rise up — move upwards
- rompish — given to romping; frolicsome.
- rosehip — hip2 .
- rsvping — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- sarapis — Serapis (def 1).
- scorpio — Astronomy. Scorpius.
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- scrimpy — scanty; meager; barely adequate.