7-letter words containing n, a, p
- gawping — (British) present participle of gawp.
- genappe — to singe (worsted yarn) in order to remove loose or protruding fibers.
- genipap — a tropical American tree, Genipa americana, of the madder family, bearing an edible fruit used for preserves or in making beverages.
- gosplan — the official planning organization, which drew up projects embracing trade and industry, agriculture, education, and public health.
- grandpa — grandfather.
- grapnel — a device consisting essentially of one or more hooks or clamps, for grasping or holding something; grapple; grappling iron.
- graspin — An Esprit project to develop a personal software engineering environment to support the construction and verification of distributed and non-sequential software systems.
- gripman — a worker on a cable car who operates the grip, which, by grasping or releasing the moving cable, starts or stops the car.
- gun lap — the final lap of a race, signaled by the firing of a starter's pistol as the runner in the lead begins the lap
- gunplay — the exchange of gunshots, usually with intent to wound or kill.
- gyptian — Obsolete form of gypsy.
- hairpin — a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.
- halpern — Daniel, born 1945, U.S. poet and editor.
- hampden — John, 1594–1643, British statesman who defended the rights of the House of Commons against Charles I.
- hampton — Lionel, 1908–2002, U.S. jazz vibraphonist.
- hanaper — a wicker receptacle for documents.
- hand up — to present (an indictment) to a court
- hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
- hang-up — a preoccupation, fixation, or psychological block; complex: His hang-up is trying to outdo his brother.
- hangups — Plural form of hangup.
- haplont — the haploid individual in a life cycle that has a diploid and a haploid phase.
- happens — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
- happing — a comforter or quilt.
- haptens — Plural form of hapten.
- hardpan — any layer of firm detrital matter, as of clay, underlying soft soil. Compare caliche, duricrust.
- harnpan — The brainpan; the skull.
- harp on — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- harping — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- harpoon — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- hasping — Present participle of hasp.
- hatpins — Plural form of hatpin.
- headpin — the pin standing nearest to the bowler when set up, at the head or front of the triangle; the number 1 pin.
- heaping — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- heparin — Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- heptane — any of nine isomeric hydrocarbons, C 7 H 16 , of the alkane series, some of which are obtained from petroleum: used in fuels as solvents, and as chemical intermediates.
- hispano — Hispanic
- homepna — Home Phoneline Networking Alliance
- hoopman — a basketball player.
- hypeman — Alternative spelling of hype man.
- impaint — to paint
- impanel — to enter on a panel or list for jury duty.
- implant — to put or fix firmly: to implant sound principles in a child's mind.
- in pais — outside of court; without legal proceedings.
- in part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- in play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- inadept — Not adept.
- inaptly — In an inapt manner; inappropriately.
- inclasp — enclasp.
- ink pad — block saturated with ink
- ink-cap — any of several saprotrophic agaricaceous fungi of the genus Coprinus, whose caps disintegrate into a black inky fluid after the spores mature. It includes the shaggy ink-cap (Coprinus comatus), also called lawyer's wig, a distinctive fungus having a white cylindrical cap covered with shaggy white or brownish scales