7-letter words containing a, s, p, o
- passado — a forward thrust with the weapon while advancing with one foot.
- passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
- passout — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pastose — having a heavy impasto.
- pearson — Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- persona — a person.
- petasos — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- pistoia — a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- plasmo- — of, relating to, or resembling plasma
- plasmon — the sum total of plasmagenes in a cell
- 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.
- podesta — any of certain magistrates in Italy, as a chief magistrate in medieval towns and republics.
- 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.
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- porsena — Lars (lɑːz). 6th century bc, a legendary Etruscan king, alleged to have besieged Rome in a vain attempt to reinstate Tarquinius Superbus on the throne
- posable — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- posadas — a city in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- posaune — an organ reed with a tone resembling a trombone
- postage — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- postbag — mailbag.
- postman — a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- posttax — existing or remaining after tax is deducted
- postwar — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war: postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
- potassa — potash.
- potsdam — a state in NE central Germany. 10,039 sq. mi. (26,000 sq. km). Capital: Potsdam.
- pousada — a government-operated inn in Portugal.
- presoak — to soak (laundry) in a liquid containing agents that loosen dirt, remove stains, etc., before washing.
- pronaos — (in a classical temple) an open vestibule before the cella.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosoma — an anterior body region, especially the arthropod cephalothorax.
- prostas — (in classical architecture) an antechamber or vestibule.
- psammon — the community of microscopic life forms living between grains of sand on shores
- reposal — the act of reposing.
- sampaio — Jorge, 1939–2010, president of Portugal 1996–2006.
- sampson — Deborah, 1760–1827, U.S. Revolutionary War soldier who fought disguised as a man.
- sapajou — a capuchin monkey.
- 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.
- sapporo — a city on W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- saprobe — saprophyte.
- sapsago — a strong, hard, usually green cheese of Swiss origin, made with sour skim milk and sweet clover.
- sapwood — the softer part of the wood between the inner bark and the heartwood.
- scallop — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scapose — having scapes; consisting of a scape.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- seaport — a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- senopia — the improvement of near-sight often accompanying old age due to nuclear sclerosis