7-letter words containing o, a, s, t
- outspan — to unyoke or unhitch, as oxen from a wagon.
- outstay — to stay longer than.
- outtask — (of an organization) to assign (a task or tasks) to staff outside the organization
- outwash — the material, chiefly sand or gravel, deposited by meltwater streams in front of a glacier.
- oxysalt — any salt of an oxyacid.
- parotis — a parotid gland
- passout — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pastose — having a heavy impasto.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- petasos — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- pistoia — a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- podcast — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- podesta — any of certain magistrates in Italy, as a chief magistrate in medieval towns and republics.
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- postage — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- postbag — mailbag.
- postman — a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- posttax — existing or remaining after tax is deducted
- postwar — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war: postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
- potassa — potash.
- potsdam — a state in NE central Germany. 10,039 sq. mi. (26,000 sq. km). Capital: Potsdam.
- prostas — (in classical architecture) an antechamber or vestibule.
- quartos — Plural form of quarto.
- rations — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
- roaster — roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- robusta — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- roseate — tinged with rose; rosy: a roseate dawn.
- rosetta — a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- rostand — Edmond [ed-mawn] /ɛdˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1868–1918, French dramatist and poet.
- rostral — of or relating to a rostrum.
- rousant — rising
- sabaoth — armies; hosts. Rom. 9:29; James 5:4.
- sabaton — a foot defense of mail or of a number of lames with solid toe and heel pieces.
- sacaton — a coarse grass, Sporobolus wrightii, of the southwestern US and Mexico, grown for hay and pasture
- sagunto — a city in E Spain, N of Valencia: besieged by Hannibal 219–218 b.c.
- saintlo — a department in NW France. 2476 sq. mi. (6413 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Lô.
- saligot — the water chestnut, Trapa natans
- saltato — (of a performance with a stringed instrument) playing each note staccato by bouncing the bow on the strings.
- saltbox — a box in which salt is kept.
- samoset — died 1653? North American Indian leader: aided Pilgrims during early years in New England.
- sandlot — a vacant lot used by youngsters for games or sports.
- santero — a priest of Santería.
- santoor — any of several types of dulcimer of Persian origin, usually trapezoidal in shape, played mainly in India, the Middle East, and Turkey
- saratov — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- saticon — a high-resolution television camera tube used when high definition is required
- sautoir — a ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other.
- scatoma — a tumorlike mass of feces in the colon or rectum.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- scotoma — loss of vision in a part of the visual field; blind spot.
- seaboot — a high, waterproof wading boot worn for fishing and sailing.