6-letter words containing r, e, p
- perovo — a former city in the W Russian Federation, incorporated into Moscow.
- peroxy — containing the peroxy group.
- perret — Auguste [oh-gyst] /oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1874–1954, French architect.
- perrin — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1870–1942, French physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in physics 1926.
- perron — an outside platform upon which the entrance door of a building opens, with steps leading to it.
- perrot — Nicolas [nik-uh-luh s;; French nee-kaw-lah] /ˈnɪk ə ləs;; French ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1644–1717, North American fur trader and explorer in the Great Lakes region, born in France.
- perses — a son of Perseus and Andromeda and the ancestor of the kings of Persia.
- persia — Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- persis — an ancient region of SW Iran: homeland of the Achaemenid dynasty
- person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- perter — boldly forward in speech or behavior; impertinent; saucy.
- pertly — boldly forward in speech or behavior; impertinent; saucy.
- peruke — a man's wig of the 17th and 18th centuries, usually powdered and gathered at the back of the neck with a ribbon; periwig.
- peruse — to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
- perutz — Max Ferdinand, 1914–2002, English chemist, born in Austria: Nobel prize 1962.
- pesaro — a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- petara — (in India) a basket for clothes
- petard — an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
- petary — a place where peat is excavated; peatary
- petrel — any of numerous tube-nosed seabirds of the families Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, and Pelecanoididae.
- petrie — Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- petro- — indicating stone or rock
- petrol — British. gasoline.
- pewter — metal: tin alloy
- phater — Slang. great; wonderful; terrific.
- phedre — a tragedy (1677) by Racine.
- pherae — (in ancient geography) a town in SE Thessaly: the home of Admetus and Alcestis.
- phoner — a person making a telephone call
- phrase — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phreak — phone phreak.
- phryne — real name Muesarete. 4th century bc, Greek courtesan; lover of Praxiteles and model for Apelles' painting Aphrodite Rising from the Waves
- picker — someone or something that picks.
- piecer — a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work.
- pierce — to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
- piercy — Marge, born 1936, U.S. poet and novelist.
- pieria — a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- pierid — belonging or pertaining to the Pieridae, a family of butterflies comprising the whites, sulfurs, etc.
- pieris — any plant of a genus, Pieris, of American and Asiatic shrubs, esp P. formosa forrestii, grown for the bright red colour of its young foliage: family Ericaceae
- pierre — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- pilfer — steal in small amounts
- pincer — insect, crab: claws
- pinder — peanut.
- pinero — Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- pinery — a place in which pineapples are grown.
- pinger — a device that makes a pinging sound, esp one that can be preset to ring at a particular time
- pinker — a color varying from light crimson to pale reddish purple.
- pinner — a person or thing that pins.
- pinter — Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- pipper — the center of the reticule of a gunsight.