7-letter words containing p, y, r
- perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
- perfumy — perfumed; scented; fragrant
- perjury — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
- peroxy- — indicating the presence of the peroxide group, -O–O-
- pessary — a device worn in the vagina to support a displaced uterus.
- petrary — a weapon used to propel stones
- petrify — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- peytrel — the part of a horse's harness or the protective part that shields its chest
- pharynx — the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.
- phorcys — a sea god who fathered the Gorgons.
- phoresy — (among insects and arachnids) a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another.
- phratry — a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
- phrensy — frenzy
- phrygia — an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor.
- picardy — a region in N France: formerly a province.
- pickery — petty theft
- piggery — a pigsty or pig breeder's establishment.
- pilfery — theft
- pillory — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- piscary — Law. the right or privilege of fishing in particular waters.
- plenary — full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified: plenary powers.
- plovery — characterized by or having many plovers
- plumery — a collection of plumes
- polymer — a compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller molecules, as polyethylene, or by the condensation of many smaller molecules with the elimination of water, alcohol, or the like, as nylon.
- pomeroy — a variety of dessert apple
- poovery — male homosexuality
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- pothery — humid; stuffy
- pottery — ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware.
- poultry — domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.
- 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.
- powdery — consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.
- pravity — depravity, moral degeneracy, perversion
- pray-in — a form of social protest in which demonstrators engage in passive resistance and prayer: popular especially in the 1970s.
- praying — uttering prayers (to God or other object of worship)
- pre-buy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- pre-pay — If you pre-pay something or pre-pay for it, you pay for it before you receive it or use it.
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- presley — Elvis (Aron) 1935–77, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer.
- pretype — to foreshadow
- prey on — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- preyful — predatory
- preying — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- pricily — in a pricey manner
- prickly — full of or armed with prickles.
- primacy — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primely — excellently.
- priorly — preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous: A prior agreement prevents me from accepting this.