6-letter words containing p, y, r
- prynne — William, 1600–69, English Puritan leader and pamphleteer.
- psywar — psychological warfare.
- purely — entirely; completely.
- purfly — stout
- purify — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purity — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purvey — to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
- pygarg — an antelope mentioned by Pliny, Herodotus, and in the Bible perhaps the addax
- pylori — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pyrene — a polycyclic, aromatic crystalline hydrocarbon, C 1 6 H 1 0 , consisting of four fused benzene rings, found in coal tar and believed to be carcinogenic.
- pyrite — a very common brass-yellow mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , with a metallic luster, burned to sulfur dioxide in the manufacture of sulfuric acid: chemically similar to marcasite, but crystallizing in the isometric system.
- pyrone — either of two heterocyclic ketones having the formula C 5 H 4 O 2 .
- pyrope — a mineral, magnesium-aluminum garnet, Mg 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 2 , occurring in crystals of varying shades of red, and frequently used as a gem.
- pyrrha — the wife of Deucalion, saved with him from the flood loosed upon mankind by Zeus
- pyrrho — c365–c275 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- pyuria — the presence of pus in the urine.
- raptly — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
- recopy — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- replay — to play again, as a record or tape.
- 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.
- ripley — George, 1802–80, U.S. literary critic, author, and social reformer: associated with the founding of Brook Farm.
- ripply — characterized by ripples; rippling.
- ropery — a place where ropes are made.
- rumply — rumpled or tending to rumple: This suit always looks rumply.
- sharpy — sharpie.
- sirupy — having the appearance or quality of syrup; thick or sweet: syrupy coffee.
- slurpy — making a slurping noise
- sparky — emitting or producing sparks.
- sparry — of or relating to mineral spar.
- speary — resembling or characteristic of spears
- sperry — Elmer Ambrose, 1860–1930, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- speyer — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine.
- sphery — having the form of a sphere; spherelike.
- sporty — flashy; showy.
- sprucy — spruce2 (def 1).
- spryly — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- spurry — any of several plants belonging to the genus Spergula, of the pink family, especially S. arvensis, having white flowers and numerous linear leaves.
- stripy — having or marked with stripes.
- sypher — to join (boards having beveled edges) so as to make a flush surface.
- syrupy — having the appearance or quality of syrup; thick or sweet: syrupy coffee.
- trampy — (of a woman) disreputable, promiscuous
- trappy — difficult or tricky: trappy terrain.
- tripey — characteristic of tripe; worthless
- triply — to a triple number, measure, or degree.
- trippy — suggestive of or resembling the effect produced by a hallucinogenic drug
- trophy — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- typier — (of a domestic animal) embodying the ideal characteristics of its variety or breed.
- unpray — to withdraw or rescind (a prayer)
- upbray — to upbraid
- vapory — vaporous.