7-letter words containing a, c, p, s
- piscary — Law. the right or privilege of fishing in particular waters.
- piscean — a person born under the sign of Pisces.
- piscina — a basin with a drain used for certain ablutions, now generally in the sacristy.
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- poaches — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- podcast — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
- respace — to change the spacing of
- sapphic — pertaining to Sappho or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by or named after her.
- scaleup — an increase in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaleup of an engineering design; a scaleup program of energy conservation.
- scallop — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scalped — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scalpel — a small, light, usually straight knife used in surgical and anatomical operations and dissections.
- scalper — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scamper — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scapose — having scapes; consisting of a scape.
- scapple — to shape (stone, timber, etc) into a plane in a rough or unfinished manner
- scapula — Anatomy. either of two flat, triangular bones, each forming the back part of a shoulder in humans; shoulder blade.
- scarper — to flee or depart suddenly, especially without having paid one's bills.
- scauper — a graver with a flattened or hollowed blade, used in engraving.
- schappe — to remove sericin from (silk waste) by fermentation.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- scraper — a person or thing that scrapes.
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- scrappy — fond of fighting, arguing, or competing.
- sempach — a village in central Switzerland: Austrians defeated by Swiss 1386.
- shackup — an instance of shacking up: The census people counted both marriages and shackups.
- shoepac — a heavy, laced, waterproof boot.
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
- spacial — of or relating to space.
- spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
- spacing — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spackle — a hole-filling compound
- spancel — a noosed rope with which to hobble an animal, especially a horse or cow.
- spasmic — convulsive
- spastic — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
- spathic — like spar.
- special — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- spectra — a plural of spectrum.
- specula — a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
- spicate — having spikes, as a plant.
- spicula — a spicule.
- spinach — a plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its edible, crinkly or flat leaves.
- splatch — a large splash or splatter
- stackup — stack (def 13).