7-letter words containing a, s, u, p
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- pasqual — ["Pasqual: A Proposed Generalization of Pascal", R.D. Tennent, TR75-32, Queen's U, Canada, 1975].
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- pass up — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- passout — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paystub — A paystub is a piece of paper given to an employee when he or she is paid stating how much money has been earned and how much has been taken from that sum for things such as tax.
- peanuts — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- pegasus — 1. (networking, product) A product to support Internet searches, electronic mail, and Usenet news. 2. (project) An open source project run by The Open Group which implements a Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- petasus — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- phallus — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- piraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- plautus — Titus Maccius [tahy-tuh s mak-see-uh s] /ˈtaɪ təs ˈmæk si əs/ (Show IPA), c254–c184 b.c, Roman dramatist.
- playbus — a mobile playground
- posaune — an organ reed with a tone resembling a trombone
- pousada — a government-operated inn in Portugal.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- 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.
- pulsant — pulsating; vibrant
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- pursual — the act of pursuit
- purusha — (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
- sapajou — a capuchin monkey.
- sapulpa — a city in E central Oklahoma.
- sarapul — a city in the SE Udmurt Autonomous Republic, in the W Russian Federation in Asia, SE of Izhevsk, on the Kama River.
- save up — put money aside
- scaleup — an increase in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaleup of an engineering design; a scaleup program of energy conservation.
- scapula — Anatomy. either of two flat, triangular bones, each forming the back part of a shoulder in humans; shoulder blade.
- scauper — a graver with a flattened or hollowed blade, used in engraving.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- seal up — make water- or air-tight
- serpula — a member of a genus of marine annelid or tubeworm belonging to the Serpulid family, characterized by the serpentine calcareous tube it produces and inhabits
- shackup — an instance of shacking up: The census people counted both marriages and shackups.
- shakeup — A shakeup is a major set of changes in an organization or a system.
- shapeup — a system of hiring dock workers using a union hiring boss who selects the day's crew from a gathering of available workers
- slap-up — excellent; first-rate: a slap-up do.
- smashup — vehicle collision
- snap up — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- soak up — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- spandau — a district of Berlin, in E Germany: site of prison for Nazi war criminals.
- spatula — an implement with a broad, flat, usually flexible blade, used for blending foods or removing them from cooking utensils, mixing drugs, spreading plasters and paints, etc.
- spatule — a spatula
- specula — a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.