7-letter words containing i, s, t, a
- lateish — (colloquial) Quite late.
- latices — a plural of latex.
- latigos — Plural form of latigo.
- latinos — Plural form of latino.
- latinus — the father of Lavinia and king of Latium at the time of the arrival of Aeneas.
- lawsuit — a case in a court of law involving a claim, complaint, etc., by one party against another; suit at law.
- laziest — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- liatris — any of various composite plants of the genus Liatris, native to North America, having long spikes of purplish flowers.
- liestal — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.
- ligates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ligate.
- lusatia — a region in E Germany and SW Poland, between the Elbe and Oder rivers.
- maestri — Plural form of maestro.
- maistre — Josephe de (ʒozɛf də). 1753–1821, French writer and diplomat, noted for his extreme reactionary views, expounded in such works as Les Soirées de St Petersbourg (1821)
- maistry — (obsolete) mastery.
- mantids — Plural form of mantid.
- mappist — (archaic) cartographer.
- marisat — one of a series of geostationary communications satellites that relay telecommunications between ships at sea and shore stations.
- maritsa — a river in S Europe, flowing from S Bulgaria along the boundary between Greece and European Turkey and into the Aegean. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- martins — Archer John Porter [ahr-cher] /ˈɑr tʃər/ (Show IPA), 1910–2002, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.
- marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.
- mastiff — one of a breed of large, powerful, short-haired dogs having an apricot, fawn, or brindled coat.
- masting — Nautical. a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast. any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast. any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- mastoid — of or relating to the mastoid process.
- mathias — Robert Bruce ("Bob") 1930–2006, U.S. track-and-field athlete.
- matings — Plural form of mating, gerund of 'mate'.
- matisse — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, French painter.
- matsuri — A solemn festival celebrated periodically at Shinto shrines in Japan.
- mattins — matin (def 1).
- maurist — a member of the Benedictine “Congregation of St. Maur,” founded in France in 1618, distinguished for its scholarship and literary works: suppressed during the French Revolution.
- mestiza — a woman of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign descent.
- mideast — Middle East.
- misacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misact.
- miscast — to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor): Tom was miscast as Romeo.
- misdate — to assign or affix a wrong date to.
- mismate — (transitive) To mate or match wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch.
- mispart — to part wrongly
- misrate — to rate or estimate incorrectly
- misseat — to seat wrongly
- mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- mithras — the god of light and truth, later of the sun.
- mitsvah — mitzvah.
- nailset — a punch for driving the head of a nail below or flush with the surrounding surface
- naivest — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- naivist — in a naive style, esp in art
- narcist — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- nastier — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- nasties — Plural form of nasty.
- nastily — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.