6-letter words containing p, r
- craped — Simple past tense and past participle of crape To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp.
- crapes — to cover, clothe, or drape with crepe.
- crappy — If you describe something as crappy, you think it is of very poor quality. Many people consider this word offensive.
- creeps — an act or instance of creeping: It seems as if time has slowed to a creep.
- creepy — If you say that something or someone is creepy, you mean they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
- creped — a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- crepes — Plural form of crepe.
- crepey — wrinkled like crepe cloth or paper
- crepon — a thin material made of fine wool or silk, or both
- crimps — Plural form of crimp.
- crimpy — having small folds or waves; curly
- cripes — an expression of surprise
- cripps — Sir (Richard) Stafford. 1889–1952, British Labour statesman; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947–50)
- crispi — Francesco (franˈtʃesko). 1819–1901, Italian statesman; premier (1887–91; 1893–96)
- crispr — Biochemistry. a unique cluster of short, repeated DNA sequences found in bacterial genomes and capable of fighting viruses: CRISPR enables bacteria to integrate foreign DNA into their genome.
- crisps — very thin slices of potato fried and eaten cold as a snack
- crispy — Food that is crispy is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- croppy — a person with cropped hair, esp rebels in the Irish rising of 1798 who had their hair cropped as a display of solidarity with the French Revolution
- croupe — That part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks.
- croups — Plural form of croup.
- croupy — pertaining to or resembling croup.
- crumps — Plural form of crump.
- crumpy — easily crumbled; crisp
- cry up — to praise highly; extol
- crypt- — crypto-
- crypto — a person who secretly supports or adheres to a group, party, or belief.
- crypts — Plural form of crypt.
- cupper — a person who performs the procedure of cupping.
- cupri- — containing copper with a valence of two; cupric
- cupric — of or containing copper in the divalent state
- cupro- — indicating copper
- cuprum — copper1 (def 1).
- curple — The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward.
- cusper — A person considered to have been born on a cusp between significant generations.
- cypher — cipher
- cypres — legal doctrine
- cyprid — Any freshwater ostracod of the family Cyprididae.
- cypris — a member of a genus of small bivalve freshwater crustaceans
- cyprus — an island in the E Mediterranean: ceded to Britain by Turkey in 1878 and made a colony in 1925; became an independent republic in 1960 as a member of the Commonwealth; invaded by Turkey in 1974 following a Greek-supported military coup, leading to the partition of the island. In 1983 the Turkish-controlled northern sector declared itself to be an independent state as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus but failed to receive international recognition. Attempts by the UN to broker a reunification agreement have failed. Cyprus joined the EU in 2004. The UK maintains two enclaves as military bases (Akrotiri and Dhekelia Sovereign Base Areas), which are not included in Cyprus politically. Languages: Greek and Turkish. Religions: Greek Orthodox and Muslim. Currency: euro and Turkish lira. Capital: Nicosia. Pop (Greek): 838 897 (2011 est); (Turkish): 265 100 (2006 est). Area: 9251 sq km (3571 sq miles)
- damper — A damper is a small sheet of metal in a fire, boiler, or furnace that can be moved to increase or reduce the amount of air that enters.
- dapper — A man who is dapper has a very neat and clean appearance, and is often also small and thin.
- deeper — Comparative form of deep.
- depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- deperm — to demagnetize (a ship or submarine) in order to protect it from magnetic detection
- deport — If a government deports someone, usually someone who is not a citizen of that country, it sends them out of the country because they have committed a crime or because it believes they do not have the right to be there.
- diaper — A diaper is a piece of soft towel or paper, which you fasten round a baby's bottom in order to soak up its urine and faeces.
- diapir — an anticlinal fold in which the brittle overlying rock has been pierced by material, such as salt, from beneath
- dipper — the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Major resembling a dipper in outline.
- dispur — a state in NE India. 30,285 sq. mi. (78,438 sq. km). Capital: Dispur.
- dopers — Plural form of doper; users of dope.