7-letter words containing i, o, s
- philos. — philosopher
- phlomis — a plant that belongs to the genus Phlomis and family Labiatae or Lamiaceae
- phobist — a person who suffers from an unusual fear or dread of something
- phonics — a method of teaching reading and spelling based upon the phonetic interpretation of ordinary spelling.
- phonies — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- photics — the science of light.
- photism — a form of synesthesia in which a visual sensation, as of color or form, is produced by the sense of touch, hearing, etc.
- photius — a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.
- physio- — of or relating to nature or natural functions
- picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- piceous — of, relating to, or resembling pitch.
- 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.
- pileous — hairy or furry.
- pilotis — a column of iron, steel, or reinforced concrete supporting a building above an open ground level.
- piosity — an excessive or obvious show of piety; sanctimoniousness.
- piously — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- pissoir — a street urinal for public use, especially one enclosed by a low wall, screen, or the like.
- pisspot — a chamber pot.
- pistoia — a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- piteous — evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- ploesti — a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- plosion — the forced release of the occlusive phase of a plosive, whether voiceless or voiced, either audible due to frication or inaudible due to a contiguous following consonant. Also called explosion. Compare implosion (def 2).
- plosive — (of a stop consonant or occlusive) characterized by release in a plosion; explosive.
- pockies — woollen mittens
- pocosin — a swamp or marsh in an upland coastal region.
- poetics — poetics.
- poisson — Siméon Denis (simeɔ̃ dəni). 1781–1840, French mathematician, noted for his application of mathematical theory to physics, esp electricity and magnetism
- polaris — a distinctive English argot in use since at least the 18th century among groups of theatrical and circus performers and in certain homosexual communities, derived largely from Italian, directly or through Lingua Franca.
- polices — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polies' — Informal. polyester (def 2): a blend of poly and cotton.
- pollist — a person who advocates the use of polls
- poloist — a person who plays or is devoted to polo
- poorish — somewhat poor; rather poor.
- poppish — having musical elements similar to pop music
- porosis — a porous condition of bones
- posited — to place, put, or set.
- positif — (on older organs) a manual controlling soft stops
- positon — a proton
- possies — a job; position.
- post-it — Post-its or Post-it notes are small pieces of paper that are sticky on one side. You write a note on the other side and stick the paper onto a surface.
- postfix — to affix at the end of something; append; suffix.
- posting — Chiefly British. a single dispatch or delivery of mail. the mail itself. the letters and packages being delivered to a single recipient. an established mail system or service, especially under government authority.
- poussin — Nicolas [nee-kaw-lah] /ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1594–1655, French painter.
- promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosify — to write or make into prose (esp of a dull nature)
- prostie — a prostitute.
- protist — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proviso — a clause in a statute, contract, or the like, by which a condition is introduced.