7-letter words containing r, a, y
- picardy — a region in N France: formerly a province.
- piscary — Law. the right or privilege of fishing in particular waters.
- plenary — full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified: plenary powers.
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- 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-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.
- 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.
- 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.
- privacy — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- propyla — plural of propylon.
- pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- pyralid — any of numerous slender-bodied moths of the family Pyralidae, having elongated triangular forewings, and in the larval phase including many crop pests.
- pyramid — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- pyrexia — fever.
- quandry — Misspelling of quandary.
- quartzy — resembling quartz
- quavery — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quinary — pertaining to or consisting of five.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- rabidly — irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan.
- raceway — Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.
- rackety — making or causing a racket; noisy.
- raggedy — ragged.
- raggery — rags
- railway — a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
- rapidly — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- ratably — capable of being rated or appraised.
- rattery — the dwelling of a rat or rats
- raunchy — vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene: a raunchy joke.
- ray gun — a gun that can fire bursts of usually destructive or lethal rays: a science fiction novel whose hero has a ray gun made of gold.
- raybans — a brand of sunglasses
- rayburn — Sam, 1882–1961, U.S. lawyer and political leader: Speaker of the House 1940–47, 1949–53, 1955–61.
- rayless — lacking rays or raylike parts.
- raylike — resembling a ray
- raymond — Henry Jarvis [jahr-vis] /ˈdʒɑr vɪs/ (Show IPA), 1820–69, U.S. publicist: founder of The New York Times.
- rayonny — radiant (def 4).
- raytown — a city in W Missouri, near Kansas City.
- readily — promptly; quickly; easily: The information is readily available.
- reality — the state or quality of being real.
- reapply — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- recarry — to carry or convey (someone or something) back again
- red bay — an evergreen tree, Persea borbonia, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having faintly bluish-green leaves and blue or blue-black, red-stalked fruit, grown as an ornamental.
- regally — of or relating to a king; royal: the regal power.
- relayed — a series of persons relieving one another or taking turns; shift.
- remarry — get married again