7-letter words containing a, i, s
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pincase — a case for holding pins
- pinesap — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- piraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- 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.
- pisidia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pissant — Slang: Vulgar. a person or thing of no value or consequence; a despicable person or thing.
- pistoia — a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- pit saw — a large saw used, esp. formerly, to cut timber lengthwise and worked by two men, one standing above the log, the other in a pit below it
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- planish — to give a smooth finish to (metal) by striking lightly with a smoothly faced hammer or die.
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plasmid — a segment of DNA independent of the chromosomes and capable of replication, occurring in bacteria and yeast: used in recombinant DNA procedures to transfer genetic material from one cell to another.
- plasmin — fibrinolysin.
- 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.
- plastid — a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.
- polaris — a distinctive English argot in use since at least the 18th century among groups of theatrical and circus performers and in certain homosexual communities, derived largely from Italian, directly or through Lingua Franca.
- praised — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- praiser — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- prisage — the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prussia — a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles)
- pulaski — a double-edged hand tool having an ax blade on one side and a pickax or wide chisel on the opposite side, used especially in clearing land and removing tree stumps.
- pythias — the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracles.
- qintars — Plural form of qintar.
- quamish — queasy; having an upset stomach; qualmish.
- quassia — a shrub or small tree, Quassia amara, of tropical America, having pinnate leaves, showy red flowers, and wood with a bitter taste. Compare quassia family.
- quassin — a bitter crystalline substance
- rabbits — Plural form of rabbit.
- raciest — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- racisms — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racists — Plural form of racist.
- radials — Plural form of radial.
- radians — Plural form of radian The angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of the circle of the same length as the circle's radius.
- radices — a plural of radix.
- raffish — mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist; rakish: a matinee idol whose raffish offstage behavior amused millions.
- ragfish — a deep-sea fish of the family Icosteidae, inhabiting the North Pacific, having a very flexible body owing to its soft, highly cartilaginous skeleton.
- railbus — a bus-like vehicle for use on railway lines
- railers — to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation (often followed by at or against): to rail at fate.
- raising — an increase in amount, as of wages: a raise in pay.
- rajasic — See under guna.
- rammish — resembling a ram.
- randies — sexually aroused; lustful; lecherous.
- rankish — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- rankism — discrimination against people on the grounds of rank
- rankist — involving or showing discrimination against people on the grounds of rank
- rappist — Harmonist.