6-letter words containing s, p, e, r
- patres — dead.
- pearls — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearse — Patrick (Henry), Irish name Pádraic. 1879–1916, Irish nationalist, who planned and led the Easter Rising (1916): executed by the British
- per se — by, of, for, or in itself; intrinsically: This candidate is not a pacifist per se, but he is in favor of peaceful solutions when practicable. Synonyms: innately, inherently, indigenously, fundamentally.
- perdus — hidden; concealed; obscured.
- perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perlis — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- 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.
- peruse — to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- pisher — a young boy or person who still has little experience
- pisser — something extremely difficult or unpleasant.
- 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).
- poiser — a person or thing that poises.
- porose — having pores; porous
- poseur — a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- posser — a short stick used for stirring clothes in a washtub
- poster — post horse.
- powers — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prases — a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- praxes — practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- preces — prayers
- precis — a concise summary.
- presb. — Presbyterian
- preset — to set beforehand.
- prespa — Lake, a lake on the borders of E Albania, SW Macedonia, and N Greece: drains underground NW to Lake Ohrid. 112 sq. mi. (290 sq. km).
- pressy — A pressy is something that you give to someone, for example at Christmas, or when you visit them.
- presto — quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
- priers — a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- prised — pry2 .
- prises — pry2 .
- proems — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- proles — a member of the proletariat.
- prones — a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- prosed — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- proser — a person who talks or writes in prose.
- proses — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- proset — A derivative of SETL with Ada-like syntax developed at the University of Essen in 1990. Formerly known as SETL/E.
- prunes — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- pulser — a machine that produces pulses
- purest — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- purges — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.