7-letter words containing p, t, e, r
- pointer — a person or thing that points.
- poitier — Sidney, born 1927, U.S. actor and director.
- poitrel — a breastplate, specifically of horse's armour
- politer — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- pomfret — any of several scombroid fishes of the family Bramidae, found in the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- poofter — Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.
- popster — a pop star
- porrect — extending horizontally; projecting.
- portage — a city in SW Michigan.
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- portend — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- portent — an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- portnet — the South African Port Authority
- postern — a back door or gate.
- posture — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- potager — a small kitchen garden
- potherb — any herb prepared as food by cooking in a pot, as spinach, or added as seasoning in cookery, as thyme.
- pothery — humid; stuffy
- pottery — ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware.
- poulter — a member of staff within e.g. a monastery or royal household, responsible for the supply of poultry
- 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.
- praetor — (in the ancient Roman republic) one of a number of elected magistrates charged chiefly with the administration of civil justice and ranking next below a consul.
- prattle — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- pre-tax — profits, etc.: before tax
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- precent — to lead as a precentor in singing.
- precept — a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
- precoat — A precoat is a coating which is put on a filter to test the performance of the filter.
- predata — a plural of datum.
- predate — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- preempt — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- prefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- preheat — to heat before using or before subjecting to some further process: to preheat an oven before baking a cake.
- prelate — an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a church dignitary.
- prelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- premeet — happening before a meet
- prenote — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- preriot — of the period before a riot
- prerupt — abrupt
- present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- presift — to sift something preliminarily
- presort — to sort (letters, packages, etc.) by zip code or class before collection or delivery to a post office.
- prestel — a videotex system in which information could be received via a telephone line and viewed on an adapted television
- prester — (in mythology) a venomous serpent
- preston — a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- pretape — to record in advance of broadcast
- preteen — Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- pretell — to predict
- pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.