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4-letter words containing p, r

  • par- — para-1 (sense 2) para-1 (sense 2b)
  • para — a former copper coin of Turkey, the 40th part of a piaster.
  • parc — XEROX PARC
  • pard — partner; companion.
  • pare — Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
  • pari — (mathematics, tool)   A system for symbolic mathematics, especially number theory. Version 1.37 for Unix, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Amiga. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • park — Mungo [muhng-goh] /ˈmʌŋ goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1771–1806? Scottish explorer in Africa.
  • parl — Parliament
  • parm — /parm/ Further-compressed form of param. This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shops; spoken /parm/ is more widely distributed, but the synonym arg is favoured among hackers. Compare var.
  • parp — to make a honking sound like a horn
  • parr — a young salmon, having dark crossbars on its sides.
  • pars — Programmable Airline Reservation System
  • part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • paur — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Austrian violinist and conductor.
  • pcjr — IBM PCjr
  • pear — the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
  • peer — a person of the same legal status: a jury of one's peers.
  • per- — through
  • pera — a modern section of Istanbul, Turkey, N of the Golden Horn: commercial and residential area.
  • perc — perk3 .
  • pere — father.
  • perf — chad
  • peri — 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.
  • perk — 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.
  • perl — (language, tool)   A high-level programming language, started by Larry Wall in 1987 and developed as an open source project. It has an eclectic heritage, deriving from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, various Unix shell languages, Lisp, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Originally developed for Unix, it is now available for many platforms. Perl's elaborate support for regular expression matching and substitution has made it the language of choice for tasks involving string manipulation, whether for text or binary data. It is particularly popular for writing CGI scripts. The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written Perl code indecipherable to the uninitiated. The syntax is, however, really quite simple and powerful and, once the basics have been mastered, a joy to write. Perl's only primitive data type is the "scalar", which can hold a number, a string, the undefined value, or a typed reference. Perl's aggregate data types are arrays, which are ordered lists of scalars indexed by natural numbers, and hashes (or "associative arrays") which are unordered lists of scalars indexed by strings. A reference can point to a scalar, array, hash, function, or filehandle. Objects are implemented as references "blessed" with a class name. Strings in Perl are eight-bit clean, including nulls, and so can contain binary data. Unlike C but like most Lisp dialects, Perl internally and dynamically handles all memory allocation, garbage collection, and type coercion. Perl supports closures, recursive functions, symbols with either lexical scope or dynamic scope, nested data structures of arbitrary content and complexity (as lists or hashes of references), and packages (which can serve as classes, optionally inheriting methods from one or more other classes). There is ongoing work on threads, Unicode, exceptions, and backtracking. Perl program files can contain embedded documentation in POD (Plain Old Documentation), a simple markup language. The normal Perl distribution contains documentation for the language, as well as over a hundred modules (program libraries). Hundreds more are available from The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. Modules are themselves generally written in Perl, but can be implemented as interfaces to code in other languages, typically compiled C. The free availability of modules for almost any conceivable task, as well as the fact that Perl offers direct access to almost all system calls and places no arbitrary limits on data structure size or complexity, has led some to describe Perl, in a parody of a famous remark about lex, as the "Swiss Army chainsaw" of programming. The use of Perl has grown significantly since its adoption as the language of choice of many web developers. CGI interfaces and libraries for Perl exist for several platforms and Perl's speed and flexibility make it well suited for form processing and on-the-fly web page creation. Perl programs are generally stored as text source files, which are compiled into virtual machine code at run time; this, in combination with its rich variety of data types and its common use as a glue language, makes Perl somewhat hard to classify as either a "scripting language" or an "applications language" -- see Ousterhout's dichotomy. Perl programs are usually called "Perl scripts", if only for historical reasons. Version 5 was a major rewrite and enhancement of version 4, released sometime before November 1993. It added real data structures by way of "references", un-adorned subroutine calls, and method inheritance. The spelling "Perl" is preferred over the older "PERL" (even though some explain the language's name as originating in the acronym for "Practical Extraction and Report Language"). The program that interprets/compiles Perl code is called "perl", typically "/usr/local/bin/perl" or "/usr/bin/perl".
  • perm — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kama River.
  • pern — to spin; to move with a spiralling motion
  • perp — the perpetrator of a crime.
  • pers — Persia
  • pert — Program Evaluation and Review Technique
  • peru — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
  • perv — a sexual pervert.
  • pier — a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
  • pire — Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
  • pirl — Pattern Information Retrieval Language. A language for digraph manipulation, embeddable in Fortran or ALGOL, for IBM 7094.
  • pirn — a fishing reel.
  • piro — piroplasmosis.
  • poor — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
  • pore — to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
  • pori — a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
  • pork — the flesh of hogs used as food.
  • porn — television shows, articles, photographs, etc., thought to cater to an excessive, irresistible desire for or interest in something: a magazine filled with enticing food porn; an addiction to real-estate porn.
  • port — located on the left side of a vessel or aircraft.
  • pory — containing pores; porous
  • pour — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • pr0n — pron
  • prad — Informal. horse.
  • prag — German name of Prague.
  • pram — a flat-bottomed, snub-nosed boat used as a fishing vessel or tender for larger vessels.
  • prao — proa.
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