7-letter words containing p, r
- corpses — Plural form of corpse.
- corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- coupler — a link or rod transmitting power between two rotating mechanisms or a rotating part and a reciprocating part
- coupure — a trench or palisade made by a besieged force behind a breach in their defences
- coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
- crackup — a cracking up
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- cramper — a spiked metal plate used as a brace for the feet in throwing the stone
- crampet — a cramp iron
- crampon — Crampons are metal plates with spikes underneath which mountain climbers fasten to the bottom of their boots, especially when there is snow or ice, in order to make climbing easier.
- crap up — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crapaud — a frog or toad
- craping — to cover, clothe, or drape with crepe.
- crapola — rubbish; nonsense
- crapped — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapper — a toilet
- crappie — either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- crapple — (obsolete) A claw.
- craptex — /krap'tekh/ (University of York, England) Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else). The non-TeX enthusiasts generally dislike it because it is more verbose than other formatters (e.g. troff) and because (particularly if the standard Computer Modern fonts are used) it generates vast output files. See religious issues.
- crapula — Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- creeped — to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
- creeper — Creepers are plants with long stems that wind themselves around objects.
- creepie — a low stool
- creeple — Obsolete form of cripple.
- creping — a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- crimped — folded into ridges
- crimper — Small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- crimple — to crumple, wrinkle, or curl
- crippen — Hawley Harvey, known as Doctor Crippen. 1862–1910, US doctor living in England: executed for poisoning his wife; the first criminal to be apprehended by the use of radiotelegraphy
- cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- crisped — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- crispen — to make or become crisp
- crisper — a compartment in a refrigerator for storing salads, vegetables, etc, in order to keep them fresh
- crispin — Saint, 3rd century ad, legendary Roman Christian martyr, with his brother Crispinian (krɪˈspɪnɪən): they are the patron saints of shoemakers. Feast day: Oct 25
- crisply — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- crop up — If something crops up, it appears or happens, usually unexpectedly.
- cropful — the quantity that can be held in a bird's crop
- cropout — A horse that has spotted coloration but whose sire and dam were both solid-coloured.
- cropped — Cropped items of clothing are shorter than normal.
- cropper — a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
- croppie — crappie
- croupon — a type of high quality leather obtained from the rear section of the hide
- crowhop — a short hop.
- crumped — Simple past tense and past participle of crump.
- crumpet — Crumpets are round, flat pieces of a substance like bread or batter with small holes in them. You toast them and eat them with butter.
- crumple — If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
- crumply — easily crumpled
- crupper — a strap from the back of a saddle that passes under the horse's tail to prevent the saddle from slipping forwards
- cryppie — (job, cryptography) /krip'ee/ A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements software or hardware for cryptography.
- crypsis — (biology) The ability of an organism to avoid observation.