6-letter words containing s, p, r
- satrap — a governor of a province under the ancient Persian monarchy.
- scarph — to assemble with a scarf joint.
- scrape — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scraps — pieces of discarded food
- scrawp — to scratch (the skin) to relieve itching
- scrimp — to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed by on): They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
- script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scroop — to emit a harsh, grating sound: The gate scrooped as he swung it shut.
- scrorp — a deep scratch or weal
- scrump — to steal (apples) from an orchard or garden
- secpar — (in astronomy) a unit of distance equivalent to 3.262 light years
- semper — a Latin word meaning always
- semper — a Latin word meaning always
- sempre — throughout.
- serape — a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- seraph — one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6.
- shairp — John Campbell ("Principal Shairp") 1819–85, English critic, poet, and educator.
- shaper — a person or thing that shapes.
- sharpe — William Forsyth [fawr-sahyth] /ˈfɔr saɪθ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- sharps — something sharp.
- sharpy — sharpie.
- sherpa — a member of a people of Tibetan stock living in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
- shrimp — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- simper — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- sippar — an ancient Babylonian city on the Euphrates, in SE Iraq.
- sipper — a person who sips.
- siprol — Signal Processing Language. A DSP language.
- sirupy — having the appearance or quality of syrup; thick or sweet: syrupy coffee.
- sitrep — a military situation report
- sloper — a person or thing that slopes.
- slurpy — making a slurping noise
- sniper — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- soaper — soap opera.
- sophar — Zophar.
- sopher — scribe1 (def 3).
- souper — a person dispensing soup in the name of charity
- spacer — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spares — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- sparge — a sprinkling.
- sparid — any of numerous fishes of the family Sparidae, chiefly inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas, comprising the porgies, the scups, etc.
- sparke — a battle-axe
- sparks — an elegant or foppish young man.
- sparky — emitting or producing sparks.
- sparry — of or relating to mineral spar.
- sparse — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- sparta — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- sparth — a type of battle-axe
- sparti — Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- spears — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.