7-letter words containing a, s, t, i, r
- dispart — (now rare) To part, separate.
- disrate — to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- ditmars — Raymond Lee, 1876–1942, U.S. zoologist and author.
- drastic — acting with force or violence; violent.
- fairest — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- gaiters — Plural form of gaiter.
- gastric — pertaining to the stomach.
- gastrin — a hormone that stimulates the secretion of gastric juice.
- guitars — Plural form of guitar.
- harpist — a person who plays the harp, especially professionally.
- hastier — Comparative form of hasty.
- imparts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impart.
- irisate — to make iridescent
- isocrat — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- istrian — of or relating to Istria, a peninsula in the N Adriatic Sea, or its inhabitants
- karstic — an area of limestone terrane characterized by sinks, ravines, and underground streams.
- kirtans — Plural form of kirtan.
- lariats — Plural form of lariat.
- liatris — any of various composite plants of the genus Liatris, native to North America, having long spikes of purplish flowers.
- maestri — Plural form of maestro.
- maistre — Josephe de (ʒozɛf də). 1753–1821, French writer and diplomat, noted for his extreme reactionary views, expounded in such works as Les Soirées de St Petersbourg (1821)
- maistry — (obsolete) mastery.
- marisat — one of a series of geostationary communications satellites that relay telecommunications between ships at sea and shore stations.
- maritsa — a river in S Europe, flowing from S Bulgaria along the boundary between Greece and European Turkey and into the Aegean. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- martins — Archer John Porter [ahr-cher] /ˈɑr tʃər/ (Show IPA), 1910–2002, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.
- marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.
- matsuri — A solemn festival celebrated periodically at Shinto shrines in Japan.
- maurist — a member of the Benedictine “Congregation of St. Maur,” founded in France in 1618, distinguished for its scholarship and literary works: suppressed during the French Revolution.
- mispart — to part wrongly
- misrate — to rate or estimate incorrectly
- mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- mithras — the god of light and truth, later of the sun.
- narcist — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- nastier — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- oralist — an advocate of oralism.
- orgiast — One who celebrates orgies.
- 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).
- parotis — a parotid gland
- parties — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- piarist — a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- piaster — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- piastre — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- qintars — Plural form of qintar.
- rabbits — Plural form of rabbit.
- raciest — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- racists — Plural form of racist.
- rankist — involving or showing discrimination against people on the grounds of rank
- rappist — Harmonist.