6-letter words containing r, i, p
- parica — a snuff used by certain Indians of South America containing dimethyltryptamine and other hallucinogenic agents, obtained from the seeds of the tree Piptadenia peregrina.
- paries — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- paring — the act of a person or thing that pares.
- parish — an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
- parity — the condition or fact of having borne offspring.
- parkie — a park keeper
- parkin — (in Britain and New Zealand) a moist spicy ginger cake usually containing oatmeal
- parnis — Mollie (Mollie Parnis Livingston) 1905–1992, U.S. fashion designer.
- partim — in part
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- parvis — a vacant enclosed area in front of a church.
- patier — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- patri- — father
- patrix — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pavior — a person that paves; paver.
- peerie — a spinning top
- peirce — Benjamin, 1809–80, U.S. mathematician.
- peoria — a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- perdie — certainly; indeed
- pereia — (in a crustacean) the thorax.
- perfin — a postage stamp having perforated initials punched into the paper: used by businesses to prevent unauthorized use of stamps.
- 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.
- perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perkin — Sir William Henry, 1838–1907, English chemist.
- perlis — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- permie — a person, esp an office worker, employed by a firm on a permanent basis
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- pernik — former name of Dimitrovo.
- pernio — chilblain.
- perrin — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1870–1942, French physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in physics 1926.
- persia — Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- persis — an ancient region of SW Iran: homeland of the Achaemenid dynasty
- petrie — Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- picara — a woman who is a rogue or vagabond.
- picard — Charles Émile [sharl ey-meel] /ʃarl eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1941, French mathematician.
- picaro — a rogue or vagabond.
- picker — someone or something that picks.
- picric — of or derived from picric acid.
- picro- — bitter
- pictor — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Dorado and Carina
- piecer — a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work.
- pierce — to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
- piercy — Marge, born 1936, U.S. poet and novelist.
- pieria — a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.
- pierid — belonging or pertaining to the Pieridae, a family of butterflies comprising the whites, sulfurs, etc.
- pieris — any plant of a genus, Pieris, of American and Asiatic shrubs, esp P. formosa forrestii, grown for the bright red colour of its young foliage: family Ericaceae
- pierre — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- pilfer — steal in small amounts
- pillar — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.