7-letter words containing e, a, s, t
- pectase — an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peltast — (in ancient Greece) a lightly armed foot soldier
- penates — the household gods of the ancient Romans
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- persant — sharp or stabbing
- pesante — in a forceful or weighty manner
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- plashet — a small, marshy pond
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- podesta — any of certain magistrates in Italy, as a chief magistrate in medieval towns and republics.
- postage — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
- psather — (language) A parallel extension of Sather for a clustered shared memory model. It features threads synchronised by monitor objects ("gates"); locality assertions and placement operators. There is an implementation for the CM-5.
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- pytheas — 4th century bc, Greek navigator. He was the first Greek to visit and describe the coasts of Spain, France, and the British Isles and may have reached Iceland
- quartes — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- rabbets — Plural form of rabbet.
- rachets — Plural form of rachet.
- raciest — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- rackets — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- raddest — Informal. radical.
- rankest — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- rathest — soonest, earliest
- realist — a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- reslate — to slate (a roof etc) again
- restack — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- restaff — to staff (a workplace, department, etc) again or replace staff members in
- restage — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- restain — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- restamp — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
- restart — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
- restate — to state again or in a new way.
- retaste — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
- retsina — a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- roaster — roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- roseate — tinged with rose; rosy: a roseate dawn.
- rosetta — a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- saccate — having a sac or the form of a sac.
- saddest — affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
- sainted — enrolled among the saints.
- sakeret — the male saker
- salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- saltate — to move by means of saltation
- saltern — a saltworks.