7-letter words containing d, s, p
- paddies — a rice field.
- palsied — paralyzed; unable to move or control certain muscles.
- pansied — covered with pansies
- parados — a bank of earth built behind a trench or military emplacement to protect soldiers from a surprise attack from the rear.
- parodos — (in ancient Greek drama) an ode sung by the chorus at their entrance, usually beginning the play and preceding the proagōn in comedy or the alteration of epeisodia and stasima in tragedy.
- passade — a turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same ground.
- passado — a forward thrust with the weapon while advancing with one foot.
- pedesis — the random motion of particles in a liquid or gas; Brownian motion
- perseid — any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- phasmid — any insect of the order Phasmida, comprising the walking sticks and leaf insects.
- phidias — c500–432? b.c, Greek sculptor.
- phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phys ed — physical education.
- pidog's — an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and other countries in east and south Asia.
- piedish — a shallow dish for baking pies
- pisidia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- plasmid — a segment of DNA independent of the chromosomes and capable of replication, occurring in bacteria and yeast: used in recombinant DNA procedures to transfer genetic material from one cell to another.
- plastid — a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.
- pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- 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.
- podolsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- posadas — a city in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- posited — to place, put, or set.
- postdoc — a postdoctoral award or scholar.
- potsdam — a state in NE central Germany. 10,039 sq. mi. (26,000 sq. km). Capital: Potsdam.
- pousada — a government-operated inn in Portugal.
- pradesh — a state, esp a state in the Union of India
- praised — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- predusk — the period before dusk
- preside — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presold — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- pressed — fruit juice: squeezed
- prosody — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- prossed — to exhibit pride or haughtiness; put on airs.
- prudish — excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
- pseudo- — false, fake
- psyched — psych1 .
- psyllid — jumping plant louse.
- pursued — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pushrod — a rod in an overhead-valve engine that is part of the linkage used to open and close the valves.
- pylades — a son of Strophius who befriended Orestes, accompanied him in his wanderings, and eventually married Electra, sister of Orestes.
- pyxides — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a box of a usually cylindrical shape having a lid with a knob in the center, used for toilet articles.
- reposed — the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- respade — to dig over; dig up or work (ground etc) with a spade again
- respond — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- rsvp'ed — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- sandpit — a deep pit in sandy soil from which sand is excavated.
- saphead — a simpleton; fool.
- sapwood — the softer part of the wood between the inner bark and the heartwood.