7-letter words containing p, t, e, r
- spectra — a plural of spectrum.
- spectre — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- spelter — zinc, especially in the form of ingots.
- spitter — brocket (def 2).
- sported — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- sporter — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- spotter — a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- spouter — to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
- spriest — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- spurter — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spurtle — a stick used to stir porridge.
- sputter — to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.
- stamper — a person or thing that stamps.
- stapler — a person who staples wool.
- steeper — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
- stepper — a person or animal that steps, especially a horse that lifts its front legs high at the knee.
- stirpes — a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
- stomper — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stooper — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stopper — a person or thing that stops.
- striped — having stripes or bands.
- striper — Military. a naval officer whose uniform sleeve displays stripes: a four-striper. an enlisted person of any of the armed services whose sleeve displays stripes denoting years of service: a six-striper.
- stripes — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
- stumper — a person or thing that stumps.
- sumpter — a packhorse or mule.
- tampere — a city in SW Finland.
- tapered — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tapster — a bartender.
- tarpeia — a vestal virgin who betrayed Rome to the Sabines and was crushed under their shields when she claimed a reward.
- tear up — If something such as a road, railway, or area of land is torn up, it is completely removed or destroyed.
- telpher — Also, teleferic. a traveling unit, car, or carrier suspended from cables in a telpherage, an aerial transportation system.
- tempera — a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- templar — a member of a religious military order founded by Crusaders in Jerusalem about 1118, and suppressed in 1312.
- tempore — in the time of
- tempter — a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.
- tempura — seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- terpene — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- therapy — the treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitating, or curative process: speech therapy.
- thumper — a blow with something thick and heavy, producing a dull sound; a heavy knock.
- tiderip — a rip caused by conflicting tidal currents or by a tidal current crossing a rough bottom.
- tippler — a person who works at a tipple, especially at a mine.
- tipster — a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
- torpefy — to make torpid
- towrope — a rope or hawser used in towing boats.
- traipse — 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.
- tramped — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
- tramper — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
- trample — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.