7-letter words containing p, a, r, s
- presale — a sale held in advance of an advertised sale, as for select customers.
- presoak — to soak (laundry) in a liquid containing agents that loosen dirt, remove stains, etc., before washing.
- prewash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- prisage — the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported.
- pronaos — (in a classical temple) an open vestibule before the cella.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosoma — an anterior body region, especially the arthropod cephalothorax.
- prostas — (in classical architecture) an antechamber or vestibule.
- prussia — a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles)
- psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
- psather — (language) A parallel extension of Sather for a clustered shared memory model. It features threads synchronised by monitor objects ("gates"); locality assertions and placement operators. There is an implementation for the CM-5.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- pursual — the act of pursuit
- purusha — (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
- ralph's — a male given name: from Old Norse words meaning “counsel” and “wolf.”.
- rappist — Harmonist.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
- relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
- rephase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- reposal — the act of reposing.
- reshape — to shape again or into different form.
- respace — to change the spacing of
- respade — to dig over; dig up or work (ground etc) with a spade again
- respawn — (of a character or item in a video game) to reenter an existing game environment at a fixed point after having been defeated or otherwise removed from play: If another player character has already opened the treasure chest, you will have to wait a few minutes for the chest to respawn.
- respeak — to speak or say (something) again
- respray — coat again with spray paint
- restamp — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- sampler — a person who samples.
- sampras — Peter ("Pete") born 1971, U.S. tennis player.
- sapporo — a city on W Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- saprobe — saprophyte.
- sarapis — Serapis (def 1).
- sarapul — a city in the SE Udmurt Autonomous Republic, in the W Russian Federation in Asia, SE of Izhevsk, on the Kama River.
- sarplar — a coarse cloth bagging.
- satrapy — the province or jurisdiction of a satrap.
- scalper — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scamper — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scarper — to flee or depart suddenly, especially without having paid one's bills.
- scauper — a graver with a flattened or hollowed blade, used in engraving.
- scraper — a person or thing that scrapes.
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- scrappy — fond of fighting, arguing, or competing.
- seaport — a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- sephora — Zipporah.
- serapis — Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
- serpula — a member of a genus of marine annelid or tubeworm belonging to the Serpulid family, characterized by the serpentine calcareous tube it produces and inhabits
- shapiro — Karl (Jay) 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.