6-letter words containing r, e, p, l
- planer — Carpentry. a power machine for removing the rough or excess surface from a board.
- plater — a person or thing that plates.
- player — Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.
- pleura — Anatomy, Zoology. a delicate serous membrane investing each lung in mammals and folded back as a lining of the corresponding side of the thorax.
- plexor — Medicine/Medical. a small hammer with a soft rubber head or the like, used in percussion for diagnostic purposes.
- pliers — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- plomer — William (Charles Franklyn). 1903–73, British poet, novelist, and short-story writer, born in South Africa. His novels include Turbott Wolfe (1926) and The Case is Altered (1932)
- plover — any of various shorebirds of the family Charadriidae. Compare dotterel (def 1), killdeer, lapwing.
- polder — a tract of low land, especially in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the sea or other body of water and protected by dikes.
- poller — a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- pooler — a person taking part in a pool game
- popler — A PLANNER-type language for the POP-2 environment.
- prawle — a brawl
- preble — Edward, 1761–1807, U.S. naval officer.
- prelim — preliminary.
- prelog — Vladimir [vlad-uh-meer] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1906–98, Swiss chemist, born in Yugoslavia: Nobel prize 1975.
- preval — René García [ruh-ney gahr-see-uh] /rəˈneɪ gɑrˈsi ə/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Haitian politician: prime minister 1991–95, president 1996–2001, 2006–11.
- proleg — one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the true or thoracic legs.
- proler — a prowler
- proles — a member of the proletariat.
- propel — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- puller — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pulper — the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- pulser — a machine that produces pulses
- pulver — powder
- purely — entirely; completely.
- purfle — to finish with an ornamental border.
- purled — the action or sound of purling.
- purler — a headlong or spectacular fall (esp in the phrase come a purler)
- purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- rappel — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- repeal — to revoke or withdraw formally or officially: to repeal a grant.
- replan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replay — to play again, as a record or tape.
- repled — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
- replot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- replow — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- replum — the thin internal separating wall or partition between valves or compartments in some fruits
- repoll — to poll or count the votes of (people) again
- repulp — to pulp or turn into pulp again
- rimple — a wrinkle.
- ripley — George, 1802–80, U.S. literary critic, author, and social reformer: associated with the founding of Brook Farm.
- ripple — (of a liquid surface) to form small waves or undulations, as water agitated by a breeze.
- rumple — to crumple or crush into wrinkles: to rumple a sheet of paper.
- sloper — a person or thing that slopes.
- splore — a frolic; revel; carousal.
- superl — superlative
- triple — threefold; consisting of three parts: a triple knot.
- yelper — to give a quick, sharp, shrill cry, as a dog or fox.