7-letter words containing o, n, s, i
- simpson — James Young, 1811–70, Scottish professor of obstetrics and obstetrician: pioneer in use of ether and chloroform as anesthetics.
- sinaloa — a state in W Mexico, bordering on the Gulf of California. 22,582 sq. mi. (58,485 sq. km). Capital: Culiacán.
- sinopia — a reddish pigment derived from iron ore
- sinopis — a red ocher, used from antiquity to the Middle Ages.
- sinuose — sinuous
- sinuous — having many curves, bends, or turns; winding: a sinuous path.
- siphnos — a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades group: gold and silver mines. 28 sq. mi. (75 sq. km).
- sirloin — the portion of the loin of beef in front of the rump.
- 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.
- smoking — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- snoring — loud breathing while asleep
- snottie — a midshipman
- snowing — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- snowish — resembling snow, snow-like, snowy
- soaking — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- soaring — an act or instance of soaring.
- sobbing — to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
- socinus — Faustus [faw-stuh s] /ˈfɔ stəs/ (Show IPA), (Fausto Sozzini) 1539–1604, and his uncle, Laelius [lee-lee-uh s] /ˈli li əs/ (Show IPA) (Lelio Sozzini), 1525–62, Italian Protestant theologians and reformers.
- sock in — to strike or hit hard.
- sodding — sodomite; homosexual.
- sogdian — a native or inhabitant of Sogdiana.
- soignee — carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed.
- soiling — to feed (confined cattle, horses, etc.) freshly cut green fodder for roughage.
- soliman — Suleiman I.
- soliton — an isolated particle-like wave that is a solution of certain equations for propagation, occurring when two solitary waves do not change their form after collision and subsequently travelling for considerable distances
- somnial — relating to dreams
- sondeli — an Indian musk shrew
- songhai — a member of a group of peoples living along the Niger River in the area of Timbuktu and Gao in Mali and in adjacent areas of Niger and Burkina Faso.
- sonship — the state, fact, or relation of being a son.
- sonties — a Shakespearean oath
- soonish — quite soon
- sooting — a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- sopping — soaked; drenched: Her clothes were sopping from the rain.
- sorbian — of or relating to the Wends or their language.
- sorbing — to gather on a surface either by absorption, adsorption, or a combination of the two processes.
- sordino — mute (def 10).
- sorokin — Pitirim Alexandrovitch [pi-ti-reem al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian pyi-tyi-ryeem uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /pɪ tɪˈrim ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian pyɪ tyɪˈryim ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1968, U.S. sociologist, born in Russia.
- sorting — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
- 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.
- souring — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- soutine — Chaim [khahy-im,, khahy-im] /xaɪˈɪm,, ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1894–1943, Lithuanian painter in France.
- soyinka — Wole [woh-ley] /ˈwoʊ leɪ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1986.
- sozzini — Italian name of Socinus.
- 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.