7-letter words containing n, o, s, p
- scoping — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- senopia — the improvement of near-sight often accompanying old age due to nuclear sclerosis
- shippon — a cow barn or cattle shed.
- shopman — a man who is employed to work in 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.
- simpson — James Young, 1811–70, Scottish professor of obstetrics and obstetrician: pioneer in use of ether and chloroform as anesthetics.
- sinopia — a reddish pigment derived from iron ore
- sinopis — a red ocher, used from antiquity to the Middle Ages.
- siphnos — a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades group: gold and silver mines. 28 sq. mi. (75 sq. km).
- skipton — a market town in N England, in North Yorkshire: 11th-century castle. Pop: 14 313 (2001)
- slip-on — made without buttons, straps, zippers, etc., so as to be put on easily and quickly: a slip-on blouse; slip-on shoes.
- sloping — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- snap to — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- snap-on — attached or fitting into place by means of a snap or with a pressing motion: snap-on bottle tops.
- snooped — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- snooper — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
- sonship — the state, fact, or relation of being a son.
- sopping — soaked; drenched: Her clothes were sopping from the rain.
- soprano — the uppermost part or voice.
- soupcon — a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
- soupfin — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- spheno- — having the shape of a wedge
- spinode — cusp (def 3).
- spinoff — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spinose — full of spines; spiniferous; spinous.
- spinous — covered with or having spines; thorny, as a plant.
- spinout — a spinning slide or skid by a motor vehicle that is out of control
- spinoza — Baruch [buh-rook] /bəˈruk/ (Show IPA), or Benedict de [ben-uh-dikt duh] /ˈbɛn ə dɪkt də/ (Show IPA), 1632–77, Dutch philosopher.
- spleno- — the spleen
- spokane — a city in E Washington.
- spoking — a simple past tense of speak.
- spondee — a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .
- spondyl — a vertebra or something like a vertebra
- sponger — a person or thing that sponges.
- spongin — a scleroprotein occurring in the form of fibers that form the skeleton of certain sponges.
- sponsal — relating to marriage
- sponson — a structure projecting from the side or main deck of a vessel to support a gun or the outer edge of a paddle box.
- sponsor — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
- spooney — spoony.
- sporing — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sporont — (in the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) an encysted spore developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.
- sporran — (in Scottish Highland costume) a large pouch for men, commonly of fur, worn, suspended from a belt, in front of the kilt.
- spot-on — Spot-on means exactly correct or accurate.
- spumone — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- spumoni — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- spur on — encourage
- step on — made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- step-on — made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- stepson — a son of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.