7-letter words containing l, p, s
- slip-on — made without buttons, straps, zippers, etc., so as to be put on easily and quickly: a slip-on blouse; slip-on shoes.
- slip-up — a mistake, blunder, or oversight: Several slip-ups caused a delay in the delivery of the books.
- sliping — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- slipout — an instance of slipping out
- slipped — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slipper — any light, low-cut shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, for casual wear in the home, for dancing, etc. Compare bedroom slipper, house slipper.
- slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
- sloping — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- slopped — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slow up — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- slow-up — a delay or retardation in progress or activity; slowdown.
- slumped — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slurper — a person who slurps his or her food or drink
- soliped — solidungulate.
- spacial — of or relating to space.
- spackle — a hole-filling compound
- spalato — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: Roman ruins.
- spaller — a person or thing that spalls
- spancel — a noosed rope with which to hobble an animal, especially a horse or cow.
- 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.
- spaniel — one of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized dogs, usually having a long, silky coat and long, drooping ears.
- sparkle — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- sparkly — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spathal — having a spathe
- spatial — of or relating to space.
- spatula — an implement with a broad, flat, usually flexible blade, used for blending foods or removing them from cooking utensils, mixing drugs, spreading plasters and paints, etc.
- spatule — a spatula
- spatzle — spaetzle.
- special — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- speckle — a small speck, spot, or mark, as on skin.
- specula — a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
- speeler — an acrobat
- speldin — a fish that has been split and dried
- spelean — of, relating to, or inhabiting a cave or caves.
- spelled — to take the place of for a time; relieve: Let me spell you at the wheel.
- speller — a person who spells words.
- spelter — zinc, especially in the form of ingots.
- spelunk — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spheral — of or relating to a sphere.
- spicula — a spicule.
- spicule — a small or minute, slender, sharp-pointed body or part; a small, needlelike crystal, process, or the like.
- spiegel — a lustrous, crystalline pig iron containing a large amount of manganese, sometimes 15 percent or more, used in making steel.
- spieler — a barker, as at a circus sideshow.
- 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.
- spilite — a type of igneous rock
- spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spindly — long or tall, thin, and usually frail: The colt wobbled on its spindly legs.
- spinule — a small spine.