7-letter words containing l, p, s, o
- nopales — (plurale tantum) The leaves of a prickly pear cactus, as used in Mexican cooking.
- oaklisp — (language) A portable object-oriented Scheme by K. Lang and Barak Perlmutter of Yale. Oaklisp uses a superset of Scheme syntax. It is based on generic operations rather than functions, and features anonymous classes, multiple inheritance, a strong error system, setters and locators for operations and a facility for dynamic binding. Version 1.2 includes an interface, bytecode compiler, run-time system and documentation.
- olympus — Mount, a mountain in NE Greece, on the boundary between Thessaly and Macedonia: mythical abode of the greater Grecian gods. 9730 feet (2966 meters).
- ooplasm — The cytoplasm of an egg or ovum.
- opposal — (archaic) opposition.
- opuscle — Obsolete form of opuscule.
- palouse — a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- parasol — a lightweight umbrella used, especially by women, as a sunshade.
- parlous — perilous; dangerous.
- pelorus — a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peoples — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- philos. — philosopher
- phlomis — a plant that belongs to the genus Phlomis and family Labiatae or Lamiaceae
- pileous — hairy or furry.
- pilotis — a column of iron, steel, or reinforced concrete supporting a building above an open ground level.
- piously — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- plasmo- — of, relating to, or resembling plasma
- plasmon — the sum total of plasmagenes in a cell
- plessor — plexor.
- 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.
- plumose — having feathers or plumes; feathered.
- plumous — having plumes or feathers
- podolsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- 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.
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- 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
- polybus — a Corinthian king who was the foster father of Oedipus.
- posable — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- presold — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- proclus — a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
- pueblos — a communal structure for multiple dwelling and defensive purposes of certain agricultural Indians of the southwestern U.S.: built of adobe or stone, typically many-storied and terraced, the structures were often placed against cliff walls, with entry through the roof by ladder.
- pulpous — soft and yielding
- pulsion — the act of driving forward
- pylorus — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- reposal — the act of reposing.
- respool — to rewind onto a spool
- scallop — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scollop — (in Ireland) a rod, pointed at both ends, used to pin down thatch
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- shallop — any of various vessels formerly used for sailing or rowing in shallow waters, especially a two-masted, gaff-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries.
- shopful — the contents of a shop.
- simplon — a mountain pass in S Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6592 feet (2010 meters) high.
- skoplje — a city in and the capital of Macedonia.