7-letter words containing p, r, y, e
- per day — relating to an allowance for daily expenses, usually those incurred while working
- per say — a frequent misspelling of per se.
- perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
- perfumy — perfumed; scented; fragrant
- perjury — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
- peroxy- — indicating the presence of the peroxide group, -O–O-
- pessary — a device worn in the vagina to support a displaced uterus.
- petrary — a weapon used to propel stones
- petrify — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- peytrel — the part of a horse's harness or the protective part that shields its chest
- phoresy — (among insects and arachnids) a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another.
- phrensy — frenzy
- pickery — petty theft
- piggery — a pigsty or pig breeder's establishment.
- pilfery — theft
- plenary — full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified: plenary powers.
- plovery — characterized by or having many plovers
- plumery — a collection of plumes
- polymer — a compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller molecules, as polyethylene, or by the condensation of many smaller molecules with the elimination of water, alcohol, or the like, as nylon.
- pomeroy — a variety of dessert apple
- poovery — male homosexuality
- pothery — humid; stuffy
- pottery — ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware.
- poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
- powdery — consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.
- pre-buy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- pre-pay — If you pre-pay something or pre-pay for it, you pay for it before you receive it or use it.
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- presley — Elvis (Aron) 1935–77, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer.
- pretype — to foreshadow
- prey on — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- preyful — predatory
- preying — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- primely — excellently.
- progeny — a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
- protyle — a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were supposed to have been formed
- prudery — excessive propriety or modesty in speech, conduct, etc.
- pryderi — the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon who was stolen by Gwawl shortly after his birth and was restored to his parents a few years later.
- psykter — a wine jar with an ovoid body tapering at the neck, set on a high foot: used for cooling wine.
- pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- puckery — puckered.
- puffery — undue or exaggerated praise.
- putrefy — to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.
- pyretic — of, pertaining to, affected by, or producing fever.
- pyrexia — fever.
- pyrites — pyrite.
- pyrogen — a substance, as a thermostable bacterial toxin, that produces a rise in temperature in a human or animal.
- pyrrole — a colorless, toxic, liquid, five-membered ring compound, C 4 H 5 N, that is a component of chlorophyll, hemin, and many other important naturally occurring substances.