5-Letter Words Containing: P,A,R

• a malicious woman with a fierce temper

• (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman

• any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

• large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America

• cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat

• a momentary flash of light

• Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger

• a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction

• put in motion or move to act

• emit or produce sparks

• acting like a clown or buffoon

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• dress or decorate showily or gaudily

• dress up showily

• United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

• a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

• a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued

• a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together

• secure with a cramp

• prevent the progress or free movement of

• affect with or as if with a cramp

• suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle

• a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes

• a visual display of information

• a written symbol that is used to represent speech

• represent by means of a graph

• plot upon a graph

• a kind of heavy jacket