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7-letter words containing t, r, e, l

  • neutral — not taking part or giving assistance in a dispute or war between others: a neutral nation during World War II.
  • nitrile — any of a class of organic compounds with the general formula RC≡N.
  • oastler — Richard. 1789–1861, British social reformer; he campaigned against child labour and helped achieve the ten-hour day (1847)
  • oldster — an old or elderly person.
  • olestra — a synthetic oil used as a substitute for dietary fat: not digested or absorbed by the human body.
  • ortegal — Cape, a cape in NW Spain, on the Bay of Biscay.
  • outlier — something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands: The small factory was an outlier, and unproductive, so the corporation sold it off to private owners who were able to make it profitable.
  • overlet — to let (a property) too often or to too many tenants
  • overtly — openly; publicly.
  • pantler — a pantry servant
  • partlet — a garment for the neck and shoulders, usually ruffled and having a collar, worn in the 16th century.
  • pelters — strong criticism or verbal abuse
  • perlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
  • persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
  • petrale — a variety of flounder, native to the Pacific coast of North America and commonly caught for food
  • peytrel — the part of a horse's harness or the protective part that shields its chest
  • philter — a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
  • philtre — philter.
  • plaiter — a person who plaits something such as wool, hair, or threads
  • planter — a person who plants.
  • plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
  • platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
  • pleater — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
  • plectra — plectrum.
  • plotter — a person or thing that plots.
  • plowter — to work or play in water or mud; dabble
  • poitrel — a breastplate, specifically of horse's armour
  • politer — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
  • poulter — a member of staff within e.g. a monastery or royal household, responsible for the supply of poultry
  • prattle — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
  • prelate — an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a church dignitary.
  • prelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
  • prestel — a videotex system in which information could be received via a telephone line and viewed on an adapted television
  • pretell — to predict
  • pretzel — a crisp, dry biscuit, usually in the form of a knot or stick, salted on the outside.
  • proglet — /prog'let/ [UK] A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need. Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long and containing no subroutines. The largest amount of code that can be written off the top of one's head, that does not need any editing, and that runs correctly the first time (this amount varies significantly according to one's skill and the language one is using). Compare toy program, noddy, one-liner wars.
  • prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
  • protyle — a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were supposed to have been formed
  • psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
  • pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
  • pulture — the right of foresters to claim food, drink, and lodging from the inhabitants of a forest for their own maintenance; provisions claimed in this way
  • quilter — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
  • ratable — capable of being rated or appraised.
  • rathole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
  • ratlike — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
  • ratline — any of the small ropes or lines that traverse the shrouds horizontally and serve as steps for going aloft.
  • rattled — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
  • rattler — a rattlesnake.
  • realist — a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
  • reality — the state or quality of being real.
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