7-letter words containing g, s, p
- sergipe — a state in NE Brazil. 8490 sq. mi. (21,990 sq. km). Capital: Aracajú.
- serpigo — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- shaping — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- sign up — a token; indication.
- sign-up — an act or instance of signing up.
- signups — an act or instance of signing up.
- sipping — to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of: He sipped the hot tea noisily.
- sliping — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- sloping — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- sniping — the action of attacking a person or persons with a rifle from a place of concealment
- sopping — soaked; drenched: Her clothes were sopping from the rain.
- sp. gr. — specific gravity
- spacing — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spadger — a sparrow
- spading — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- spangle — a small, thin, often circular piece of glittering metal or other material, used especially for decorating garments.
- spangly — Spangly clothes are decorated with a lot of small shiny objects.
- sparger — a sprinkling.
- sparing — kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
- specing — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- spiegel — a lustrous, crystalline pig iron containing a large amount of manganese, sometimes 15 percent or more, used in making steel.
- spignel — a European umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum, of mountain regions, having white flowers and finely divided aromatic leaves
- spiling — a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spiring — a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- spiting — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- splodge — blot, splotch
- splurge — to indulge oneself in some luxury or pleasure, especially a costly one: They splurged on a trip to Europe.
- splurgy — ostentatious
- spoking — a simple past tense of speak.
- sponger — a person or thing that sponges.
- spongin — a scleroprotein occurring in the form of fibers that form the skeleton of certain sponges.
- sporing — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sprague — Frank Julian, 1857–1934, U.S. electrical engineer and inventor.
- spreagh — a raid to steal cattle
- spriggy — possessing sprigs or small branches.
- spright — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- springe — a snare for catching small game.
- springs — a leap, jump, or bound.
- springy — characterized by spring or elasticity; flexible; resilient: He walks with a springy step.
- spruing — Metallurgy. an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold. the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- stop-go — Stop-go is used to describe processes in which there are periods of inactivity between periods of activity.
- stopgap — something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift: Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
- stoping — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- super-g — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- swiping — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- tsangpo — Zangbo
- upstage — on or toward the back of the stage.
- upsurge — to surge up; increase; rise: Water upsurged. Crime upsurged.
- upswing — an upward swing or swinging movement, as of a pendulum.
- wisping — a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.