6-letter words containing p, t, e, r
- repute — estimation in the view of others; reputation: persons of good repute.
- respot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- retape — a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- retype — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- 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.
- roupet — hoarse; croaky
- rupert — Prince, 1619–82, German Royalist general and admiral in the English Civil War (nephew of Charles I of England).
- sitrep — a military situation report
- sprent — sprinkled.
- sprite — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- streep — Meryl, original name Mary Louise Streep. born 1949, US actress. Her films include The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1986), The Hours (2002), Mamma Mia! (2008), and The Iron Lady (2011)
- stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
- tamper — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tapper — a person or thing that taps, as trees for the sap or juice, a blast furnace, cask, or other container for their contents, etc.
- temper — a particular state of mind or feelings.
- tephra — clastic volcanic material, as scoria, dust, etc., ejected during an eruption.
- teraph — any of various small household gods or images venerated by ancient Semitic peoples. (Genesis 31:19–21; I Samuel 19:13–16)
- thorpe — a hamlet; village.
- threap — an argument; quarrel.
- tipper — a person or thing that tips: The waiters liked him for being a big tipper.
- topper — a person or thing that tops.
- torpex — (sometimes lowercase) a high explosive made of TNT, cyclonite, and aluminum powder and used especially in torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
- trapes — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- trepan — a person who ensnares or entraps others.
- trepid — fearful or apprehensive, especially trembling from fear.
- tricep — a triceps muscle, especially the one at the back of the upper arm.
- tripes — the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- tripey — characteristic of tripe; worthless
- triple — threefold; consisting of three parts: a triple knot.
- trompe — Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- troupe — a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- tupper — Sir Charles, 1821–1915, Canadian statesman: prime minister 1896.
- typier — (of a domestic animal) embodying the ideal characteristics of its variety or breed.
- uprate — to raise in rate, power, size, classification, etc.; upgrade: to uprate a rocket engine.
- uprest — an uprising
- uptear — to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.