6-letter words containing p, r, o
- sanpro — sanitary-protection products, collectively
- sapour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- sapro- — indicating dead or decaying matter
- scroop — to emit a harsh, grating sound: The gate scrooped as he swung it shut.
- scrorp — a deep scratch or weal
- siprol — Signal Processing Language. A DSP language.
- sloper — a person or thing that slopes.
- soaper — soap opera.
- sophar — Zophar.
- sopher — scribe1 (def 3).
- souper — a person dispensing soup in the name of charity
- spinor — a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- spiro- — indicating breath or respiration
- splore — a frolic; revel; carousal.
- sporal — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spores — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sporo- — (in botany) spore
- sports — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sporty — flashy; showy.
- sproat — a fishhook having a circular bend.
- sprout — to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- stupor — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
- tarpon — a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- thorpe — a hamlet; village.
- topper — a person or thing that tops.
- torpex — (sometimes lowercase) a high explosive made of TNT, cyclonite, and aluminum powder and used especially in torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
- torpid — inactive or sluggish.
- torpor — sluggish inactivity or inertia.
- tripod — a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.
- tripos — (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- trompe — Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- tromps — to tramp or trample.
- troops — armed forces; soldiers
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trophi — the mandibles or other parts of an insect's mouth
- trophy — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- tropin — a hormone released in the body by a certain gland and which produces a response in other glands, stimulating the release of other hormones
- tropo- — indicating change or a turning
- troppo — too much; excessively.
- troupe — a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- unprop — to remove support from; take away a prop from
- unrope — to release oneself by untying a rope
- up for — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- upbore — to bear up; raise aloft; sustain or support.
- upgrow — to become more adult
- upprop — to support or prop up
- uproar — a state of violent and noisy disturbance, as of a multitude; turmoil.
- uproll — to roll up