6-letter words containing r, e, p
- hyper- — Hyper- is used to form adjectives that describe someone as having a lot or too much of a particular quality.
- impire — Obsolete form of umpire.
- impure — not pure; mixed with extraneous matter, especially of an inferior or contaminating nature: impure water and air.
- japery — to jest; joke; gibe.
- jasper — a city in NW Alabama.
- jimper — slender; trim; delicate.
- jumper — an act or instance of jumping; leap.
- kasper — a male given name, form of Caspar.
- keeper — a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
- kelper — a native or inhabitant of the Falkland Islands.
- kemper — One who kemps, or strives, for superiority.
- kepler — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1571–1630, German astronomer.
- kerpow — A powerful sound of impact or transformation; pow, wham.
- khoper — a river in S European Russia, flowing S to the Don River. 625 miles (1006 km) long.
- kipper — a young male Aborigine, usually 14 to 16 years old, who has recently undergone his tribal initiation rite.
- kuiper — Gerard Peter, 1905–73, U.S. astronomer, born in the Netherlands.
- lamper — One who takes part in lamping, or hunting with bright lights.
- laperm — a breed of medium-sized curly-haired cat with large ears
- lapper — a person or thing that laps liquid.
- lapser — One who lapses.
- leaper — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- lemper — Ute (ˈuːtɪ). born 1963, German singer and actress, noted esp for her performances of songs by Kurt Weill
- lepers — A person suffering from leprosy.
- lepper — Misspelling of leper.
- limper — lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame: a limp body.
- lipper — a slightly rough or ripply surface on a body of water.
- lisper — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- looper — a person or thing that loops something or forms loops.
- lopper — a person or thing that lops.
- lumper — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- mapper — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- merope — a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- merops — (in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- mopery — mopish behavior.
- mopier — mopey.
- mopper — One who mops.
- morphe — (archaic) alternative spelling of morphew.
- mumper — (British, or, obsolete) A beggar.
- napery — table linen, as tablecloths or napkins.
- napier — Sir Charles James, 1782–1853, British general.
- napper — a person who naps or dozes.
- nepers — Plural form of neper.
- nephr- — nephro-
- nipper — a person or thing that nips.
- nipter — a religious ceremony of foot washing
- opener — a person or thing that opens.
- operas — Plural form of opera.
- operon — a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- orpine — a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- osprey — Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.