7-letter words containing i, s, p
- parisii — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- parison — a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- parkish — like or similar to a park
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parotis — a parotid gland
- parrish — Anne, 1888–1957, U.S. novelist and author of books for children.
- parsing — parser
- parsnip — a plant, Pastinaca sativa, cultivated varieties of which have a large, whitish, edible root.
- parties — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- parulis — gumboil.
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- passaic — a city in NE New Jersey.
- passing — going by or past; elapsing: He was feeling better with each passing day.
- passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
- passive — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- past it — If you say that someone or something is past it, they are no longer able to do what they used to do.
- pasties — of or like paste in consistency, texture, color, etc.
- pastime — something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport: to play cards as a pastime.
- pastina — very small pieces of pasta in various shapes, used especially in soups.
- pasting — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paviser — a soldier bearing or using a pavise
- paylist — a list of people to be paid
- payslip — paper slip detailing wage payment
- pci bus — Peripheral Component Interconnect
- pe-tsai — Chinese cabbage.
- peakish — to become weak, thin, and sickly.
- peckish — somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
- pedesis — the random motion of particles in a liquid or gas; Brownian motion
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- peishwa — a leader of the Maratha people
- pelasgi — the pre-Hellenic peoples who inhabited Greece and the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks
- pelisse — an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- peneios — Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- penis's — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pennies — a female given name, form of Penelope.
- pensile — hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- pension — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- pensive — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- penzias — Arno Allan, born 1933, U.S. astrophysicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in physics 1978.
- peritus — a Catholic theological expert and consultant who gives advice at an ecumenical council of the church
- perkins — Frances, 1882–1965, U.S. sociologist: Secretary of Labor 1933–45.
- perkish — to become lively, cheerful, or vigorous, as after depression or sickness (usually followed by up): The patients all perked up when we played the piano for them.
- perseid — any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- persian — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
- persist — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- persius — (Aulus Persius Flaccus) a.d. 34–62, Roman satirist.
- peshito — the standard translation of the Old and New Testaments in ancient Syriac
- pessima — the lowest or worst state of affairs
- petscii — (character) /pet'skee/ PET ASCII. The variation (many would say perversion) of the ASCII character set used by the Commodore Business Machines' PET series of personal computers and the later Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128 computers. The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218, and added graphic characters.