7-letter words containing p, r
- dispair — (transitive) To separate (a pair).
- dispark — to release from confinement
- dispart — (now rare) To part, separate.
- disport — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- dnieper — a river rising in the W Russian Federation flowing S through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Ukraine to the Black Sea. 1400 miles (2250 km) long.
- dom rep — Dominican Republic
- doppler — Christian Johann, 1803–53, Austrian physicist: discovered the Doppler effect.
- drag up — old subject: raise again
- drapeau — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1916–1999, Canadian lawyer and politician: mayor of Montreal 1954–57 and 1960–86.
- drapers — Plural form of draper.
- drapery — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- drapier — a draper
- draping — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drappie — a little drop, esp a small amount of spirits
- draw up — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- dripped — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
- dripper — Agent noun of drip; one who drips.
- drooped — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drop by — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop in — Informal.. Also, dropper-in. a person who or thing that pays an unexpected or uninvited visit: a feeder for squirrels, raccoons, and other drop-ins.
- drop it — stop talking about it
- drop-by — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop-in — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropbox — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- dropfly — (in angling) an artificial fly usually used as an extra fly
- droplet — a little drop.
- dropoff — Alternative form of drop-off.
- dropout — an act or instance of dropping out.
- dropped — Let or make (something) fall vertically.
- dropper — a person or thing that drops.
- dropple — a trickle
- drum up — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- dry mop — dust mop.
- dumpers — Plural form of dumper.
- dumpier — Comparative form of dumpy.
- dylperl — A dynamic linking package for Perl by Roberto Salama <[email protected]>. Dynamically loaded functions are accessed as if they were user-defined functions. This code is based on Oliver Sharp's May 1993 article in Dr. Dobbs Journal ("Dynamic Linking under Berkeley Unix"). Posted to news:comp.lang.perl on 1993-08-11.
- e-prime — a modification of the English language that avoids all forms of the verb be.
- eardrop — an earring with a pendant.
- earflap — either of a pair of flaps attached to a cap, for covering the ears in cold weather.
- earpick — an implement for picking at the ear and removing earwax
- earplug — a plug of soft, pliable material inserted into the opening of the outer ear, especially to keep out water or noise.
- ectropy — (thermodynamics) The overall increase in the organization of a system.
- eggdrop — (communications) The world's most popular open source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use. Eggdrop is freely distributable under the GPL. It was originally developed by Robey Pointer but he no longer works on it. Eggdrop is designed to run on Linux, *BSD, SunOs, Windows, Mac OS X and other platforms. It is extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules. It supports Undernet, DALnet, EFnet, IRCnet, and QuakeNet. It can form botnets and share partylines and userfiles between bots.
- elopers — Plural form of eloper.
- emparks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empark.
- emperil — Dated form of imperil.
- emperor — A sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.
- empires — Plural form of empire.
- empiric — A person who, in medicine or other branches of science, relies solely on observation and experiment.