7-letter words containing a, p, i
- puranic — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- puritan — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- pyaemia — a diseased state in which pyogenic bacteria are circulating in the blood, characterized by the development of abscesses in various organs.
- pyralid — any of numerous slender-bodied moths of the family Pyralidae, having elongated triangular forewings, and in the larval phase including many crop pests.
- pyramid — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- pyrexia — fever.
- pythiad — the four-year period between two celebrations of the Pythian Games.
- pythian — Also, Pythic. of or relating to Delphi, in ancient Greece.
- pythias — the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracles.
- rampike — a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.
- ramping — a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- rampion — a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- rapacki — Adam (ˈadam). 1909–70, Polish politician: foreign minister (1956–68): proposed (1957) the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany (the Rapacki Plan): rejected by the West because of Soviet predominance in conventional weapons
- raphide — any of numerous needle-shaped crystals, usually of calcium oxalate, that occur in many plant cells as a metabolic product
- rapidan — a river in N Virginia, flowing E from the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Rappahannock River: Civil War battle 1862.
- rapider — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- rapidly — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- rapping — a quick, smart, or light blow: a rap on the knuckles with a ruler.
- rappini — the leaves of the turnip, Brassica rapa, eaten cooked or raw as greens.
- rappist — Harmonist.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- reaping — to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- repaint — to paint again: to repaint the house.
- replica — a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
- rip-rap — broken stones loosely deposited in water or on a soft bottom to provide a foundation and protect a riverbed or river banks from scour: used for revetments, embankments, breakwaters, etc
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- salpinx — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
- sampaio — Jorge, 1939–2010, president of Portugal 1996–2006.
- sandpit — a deep pit in sandy soil from which sand is excavated.
- sapiens — of, relating to, or resembling modern humans (Homo sapiens).
- sapient — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sapling — a young tree.
- saponin — any of a group of amorphous glycosides of terpenes and steroids, occurring in many plants, characterized by an ability to form emulsions and to foam in aqueous solutions, and used as detergents.
- sapphic — pertaining to Sappho or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by or named after her.
- sapping — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
- sarapis — Serapis (def 1).
- saw pit — a place for pit sawing.
- saw-pit — a place for pit sawing.
- 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.
- senopia — the improvement of near-sight often accompanying old age due to nuclear sclerosis
- serapis — Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
- shaping — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- shapiro — Karl (Jay) 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.
- sharpie — sharper.
- shiplap — an overlapping joint, as a rabbet, between two boards joined edge to edge.
- shipman — a sailor.
- shipway — the structure that supports a ship being built.
- sinopia — a reddish pigment derived from iron ore
- skidpan — an area made slippery so that vehicle drivers can practise controlling skids
- slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.