7-letter words containing a, i, s
- nasties — Plural form of nasty.
- nastily — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- nations — Plural form of nation.
- natives — Plural form of native.
- navvies — Plural form of navvy.
- naysaid — Simple past tense and past participle of naysay.
- naziism — the principles or methods of the Nazis.
- nemesia — any plant of the southern African scrophulariaceous genus Nemesia: cultivated for their brightly coloured (often reddish) flowers
- nicetas — Saint (Ignatius Theophorus) a.d. c40–107? bishop of Antioch and Apostolic Father.
- nicolas — a masculine name
- nicosia — an island republic in the Mediterranean, S of Turkey: formerly a British colony; independent since 1960. 3572 sq. mi. (9250 sq. km). Capital: Nicosia.
- nidaros — former name of Trondheim.
- ningsia — a former province in NW China, now part of Inner Mongolia.
- novalis — (pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg) 1772–1801, German poet.
- oaklisp — (language) A portable object-oriented Scheme by K. Lang and Barak Perlmutter of Yale. Oaklisp uses a superset of Scheme syntax. It is based on generic operations rather than functions, and features anonymous classes, multiple inheritance, a strong error system, setters and locators for operations and a facility for dynamic binding. Version 1.2 includes an interface, bytecode compiler, run-time system and documentation.
- oarfish — any long, ribbon-shaped, silvery fish of the genus Regalecus, of deep tropical waters, having a red dorsal fin along the spine that rises to a crest, and reaching a length of 30 feet (9 meters).
- obelias — Plural form of obelia.
- oblasti — (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- obtains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtain.
- odalisk — a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially in that of the sultan of Turkey.
- oilcans — Plural form of oilcan.
- oilsand — Alternative spelling of oil sand.
- onanism — withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- onanist — withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- onassis — Aristotle Socrates, 1906–75, Greek businessman, born in Turkey.
- onitsha — a city in SW Nigeria, on the Niger River.
- opiates — Plural form of opiate.
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- oralist — an advocate of oralism.
- ordains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ordain.
- orgiast — One who celebrates orgies.
- osirian — the king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set): usually depicted as a man, partly wrapped as a mummy, having a beard and wearing the atef-crown.
- osman i — 1259–1326, Turkish sultan; founder of the Ottoman Empire
- osmanli — an Ottoman.
- osmatic — of or relating to the sense of smell.
- ossetia — a region in Caucasia: divided between North Ossetia of the Russian Federation and the South Ossetian Autonomous Region of the Georgian Republic.
- osteria — An Italian restaurant, typically a simple or inexpensive one.
- ostiary — Also called doorkeeper, porter. Roman Catholic Church. a member of the lowest-ranking of the four minor orders. the order itself. Compare acolyte (def 2), exorcist (def 2), lector (def 2).
- ostiate — characterized by having ostia
- ouraris — curare.
- outsail — to outdo in sailing; sail farther, more skillfully, or faster than.
- ovaries — Anatomy, Zoology. the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop.
- oxidase — any of a class of oxidoreductases that catalyze the oxidation of a substrate by molecular oxygen with the formation, in most cases, of hydrogen peroxide.
- pachisi — a board game, originated in ancient India, in which four players advance four pieces each along a route on a cross-shaped board toward a center square by throws of cowrie shells or dice.
- paddies — a rice field.
- pailisp — (language) A parallel Lisp built on Scheme in 1986.
- paisana — a female peasant
- paisano — paisan.
- paisley — a soft woolen fabric woven with a pattern of colorful and minutely detailed figures.
- palissy — Bernard [ber-nar] /bɛrˈnar/ (Show IPA), c1510–89, French potter, enameler, and author.