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7-letter words containing o, p, t, i

  • pontiff — any pontifex.
  • pontile — a metal bar used in glass-making
  • pontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
  • ponting — Ricky (Thomas). born 1974, Australian cricketer; a batsman, he played in 168 test matches (1995–2012), 77 as captain; scored 13,378 runs in tests (an Australian record), and captained Australia to two World Cup wins (2003, 2007)
  • portici — a city in S Italy, on the Bay of Naples.
  • portico — a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
  • porting — Military. the position of a rifle or other weapon when ported.
  • portion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
  • posited — to place, put, or set.
  • positif — (on older organs) a manual controlling soft stops
  • positon — a proton
  • post-it — Post-its or Post-it notes are small pieces of paper that are sticky on one side. You write a note on the other side and stick the paper onto a surface.
  • postfix — to affix at the end of something; append; suffix.
  • posting — Chiefly British. a single dispatch or delivery of mail. the mail itself. the letters and packages being delivered to a single recipient. an established mail system or service, especially under government authority.
  • pot-pie — a deep-dish pie containing meat, chicken, or the like, often combined with vegetables and topped with a pastry crust.
  • potamic — of or relating to rivers.
  • potboil — to create potboilers.
  • potiche — a vase or jar, as of porcelain, with a rounded or polygonal body narrowing at the top.
  • potlike — resembling a pot, shaped like a pot
  • potline — a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
  • poutine — a dish of chipped potatoes topped with curd cheese and a tomato-based sauce
  • pouting — having the lips sticking out, usually in order to show annoyance or to appear sexually attractive
  • preriot — of the period before a riot
  • probity — integrity and uprightness; honesty.
  • prootic — the prootic bone, which lies in front of the auditory capsule
  • prostie — a prostitute.
  • proteid — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • protein — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • protist — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
  • protium — the lightest and most common isotope of hydrogen. Symbol: H 1.
  • pterion — the craniometric point at the side of the sphenoidal fontanelle.
  • repoint — to repair the joints of (brickwork, masonry, etc) with mortar or cement
  • reposit — to put back; replace.
  • riposte — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
  • ripstop — a type of woven fabric that is resistant against tears and rips
  • skipton — a market town in N England, in North Yorkshire: 11th-century castle. Pop: 14 313 (2001)
  • slipout — an instance of slipping out
  • sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
  • sopwith — Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch. 1888–1989, British aircraft designer, who built the Sopwith Camel biplane used during World War I. He was chairman (1935–63) of the Hawker Siddeley Group, which developed the Hurricane fighter
  • spinout — a spinning slide or skid by a motor vehicle that is out of control
  • spitbol — SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL. "Macro SPITBOL - A SNOBOL4 Compiler", R.B.K. Dewar et al, Soft Prac & Exp 7:95-113, 1971. Current versions: SPITBOL-68000, Sparc SPITBOL from Catspaw Inc, (719)539-3884.
  • sportif — sporty
  • spotlit — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
  • spottie — a young deer of up to three months of age
  • stompie — a cigarette butt
  • stop in — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • stoping — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
  • talipot — a tall palm, Corypha umbraculifera, of southern India and Ceylon, having large fronds used for making fans and umbrellas, for covering houses, and in place of writing paper: also grown as an ornamental.
  • tampico — a seaport in SE Tamaulipas, in E Mexico.
  • tampion — a plug or stopper placed in the muzzle of a piece of ordnance when not in use, to keep out dampness and dust.
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