7-letter words containing r, a, t
- peatier — of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
- periapt — an amulet.
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- persant — sharp or stabbing
- pertain — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- petrale — a variety of flounder, native to the Pacific coast of North America and commonly caught for food
- petrary — a weapon used to propel stones
- philtra — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- phorate — a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 1 7 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- phratry — a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
- piarist — a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- piaster — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- piastre — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
- pirated — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- plaiter — a person who plaits something such as wool, hair, or threads
- plantar — of or relating to the sole of the foot.
- planter — a person who plants.
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
- pleater — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plectra — plectrum.
- pop art — an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.
- portage — a city in SW Michigan.
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- portman — a group of citizens of a town responsible for administering the affairs of that town
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- postwar — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war: postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
- potager — a small kitchen garden
- practic — practical.
- 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.
- prakrit — any of the vernacular Indic languages of the ancient and medieval periods, as distinguished from Sanskrit.
- prandtl — Ludwig (ˈluːtvɪç). 1875–1953, German physicist, who made important contributions to aerodynamics and aeronautics
- prating — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- prattle — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- pravity — depravity, moral degeneracy, perversion
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pretape — to record in advance of broadcast
- primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- pripyat — a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- private — privacy
- probate — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- proctal — relating to the rectum