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6-letter words containing s, p, r

  • gapers — Plural form of gaper.
  • gasper — a cigarette.
  • gepurs — An early system on the IBM 701.
  • gramps — grandfather.
  • grapes — the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
  • graphs — Plural form of graph.
  • grasps — Plural form of grasp.
  • gripes — Plural form of gripe.
  • gropes — Plural form of grope.
  • groups — Plural form of group.
  • grumps — Plural form of grump.
  • herpes — any of several diseases caused by herpesvirus, characterized by eruption of blisters on the skin or mucous membranes. Compare chickenpox, genital herpes, oral herpes, shingles.
  • hesper — Hesperus.
  • hopers — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
  • impros — Plural form of impro.
  • isopor — an imaginary line on the earth's surface connecting points of equal annual change in the declination, inclination, or other components of the earth's magnetic field.
  • jasper — a city in NW Alabama.
  • karpas — a piece of parsley, celery, or similar green vegetable that is dipped in salt water and eaten at the Seder meal on Passover.
  • kasper — a male given name, form of Caspar.
  • kypris — Cypris.
  • lapser — One who lapses.
  • lepers — A person suffering from leprosy.
  • lisper — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
  • merops — (in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
  • morphs — Plural form of morph.
  • nepers — Plural form of neper.
  • operas — Plural form of opera.
  • osprey — Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.
  • pamirs — the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
  • papers — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
  • paries — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
  • parish — an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
  • parkes — Sir Henry. 1815–96, Australian journalist and politician born in England, five times premier of New South Wales, advocate of free trade and Federation, and a founder of the public education system
  • parnis — Mollie (Mollie Parnis Livingston) 1905–1992, U.S. fashion designer.
  • parsec — a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
  • parsee — an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
  • parser — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
  • parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
  • parsva — a semilegendary Tirthankara of the 8th century b.c., said to have been born after a series of pious incarnations in each of which he was killed by an antagonist who had originally been his elder brother: the twenty-third Tirthankara.
  • partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
  • parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.
  • pasear — to go for a rambling walk or paseo
  • passer — a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
  • paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
  • pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
  • pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
  • patras — Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
  • 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
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