6-letter words containing p, r, o
- mp3pro — (audio, compression) An extention of MP3 using SBR, targetting data rates of 64-96 kbps.
- no-par — without par or face value: no-par stock.
- nonpar — nonparticipating
- nonpro — (informal) A nonprofessional.
- onramp — an entrance lane for traffic from a street to a turnpike or freeway.
- op art — a style of abstract art in which lines, forms, and space are organized in such a way as to provide optical illusions of an ambiguous nature, as alternately advancing and receding squares on a flat surface.
- opener — a person or thing that opens.
- operas — Plural form of opera.
- operon — a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- oporto — a port in NW Portugal, near the mouth of the Douro River.
- oppari — An impromptu folk song of southern India, traditionally sung by women during a death ceremony in order to memorialize the person who has died.
- optran — Specification language for attributed tree transformation writetn by R. Wilhelm, U Saarlandes in the early 1980's.
- orphan — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orphic — of or relating to Orpheus.
- orpine — a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- osprey — Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.
- otprom — One Time Programmable Read-Only Memory
- oupire — A vampire.
- pakora — an Indian dish consisting of pieces of vegetable, chicken, etc, dipped in a spiced batter and deep-fried: served with a piquant sauce
- pallor — unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
- paramo — a high, cold plateau of South America.
- pardon — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- pareto — Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- parlog — Clark & Gregory, Imperial College 1983. An AND-parallel Prolog, with guards and committed choice nondeterminism (don't care nondeterminism). Shallow backtracking only. Implementations: MacParlog and PC-Parlog from Parallel Logic Programming Ltd., Box 49 Twickenham TW2 5PH, UK. See also SPM.
- parlor — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parmod — "Parallel Programming with ParMod", S. Eichholz, Proc 1987 Intl Conf on Parallel Proc, pp.377-380.
- parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parole — language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
- parore — a dark brownish-green fish, Girella tricuspidata of coastal and estuarine waters in New Zealand's North Island and Australia
- parrot — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- parton — a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patron — (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
- pavior — a person that paves; paver.
- pelory — floral mutation
- peoria — a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- period — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
- pernio — chilblain.
- pernod — an aniseed-flavoured apéritif from France
- pernor — a person who takes or receives the rents, profits, or other benefit of an estate, lands, etc.
- perovo — a former city in the W Russian Federation, incorporated into Moscow.
- peroxy — containing the peroxy group.
- 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.
- person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- pesaro — a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- petro- — indicating stone or rock
- petrol — British. gasoline.