7-letter words containing a, t, o, p
- pontiac — c1720–69, North American Indian, chief of the Ottawa tribe: commander during the Pontiac War 1763–64.
- pontian — pope a.d. 230–235.
- pop art — an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.
- poptalk — (language, product) A commercial object-oriented derivative of POP, from Cambridge Consultants, used in the expert system MUSE.
- portage — a city in SW Michigan.
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- portman — a group of citizens of a town responsible for administering the affairs of that town
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- 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.
- potable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- potager — a small kitchen garden
- potamic — of or relating to rivers.
- potassa — potash.
- potenza — a city in Basilicata, in S Italy.
- pothead — a person who habitually smokes marijuana.
- potomac — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- potsdam — a state in NE central Germany. 10,039 sq. mi. (26,000 sq. km). Capital: Potsdam.
- pottage — a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat.
- praetor — (in the ancient Roman republic) one of a number of elected magistrates charged chiefly with the administration of civil justice and ranking next below a consul.
- precoat — A precoat is a coating which is put on a filter to test the performance of the filter.
- probate — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
- pronate — to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- prorate — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- prostas — (in classical architecture) an antechamber or vestibule.
- protalk — Quintus. An object-oriented Prolog.
- protean — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- provant — supplied with provisions
- pt boat — a small, fast, lightly armed, unarmored, and highly maneuverable boat used chiefly for torpedoing enemy shipping.
- pteroma — pteron.
- rap out — If you rap out an order or a question, you say it quickly and sharply.
- rapport — relation; connection, especially harmonious or sympathetic relation: a teacher trying to establish close rapport with students.
- readopt — to adopt (a person, procedure, law, etc) again
- rootcap — the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- seaport — a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- snap to — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- spalato — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: Roman ruins.
- spambot — a bot that searches the Internet for email addresses in order to send spam.
- spot ad — a brief advertisement broadcast in a programme break
- stopgap — something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift: Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
- tadpole — the aquatic larva or immature form of frogs and toads, especially after the development of the internal gills and before the appearance of the forelimbs and the resorption of the tail.
- talipot — a tall palm, Corypha umbraculifera, of southern India and Ceylon, having large fronds used for making fans and umbrellas, for covering houses, and in place of writing paper: also grown as an ornamental.
- tampico — a seaport in SE Tamaulipas, in E Mexico.
- tampion — a plug or stopper placed in the muzzle of a piece of ordnance when not in use, to keep out dampness and dust.