7-letter words containing p, c, o, s
- mockups — Plural form of mockup.
- octapus — Misspelling of octopus.
- octopus — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- on spec — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- opsonic — of, relating to, or influenced by opsonin; capable of promoting phagocytosis.
- opuscle — Obsolete form of opuscule.
- pectose — protopectin.
- pectous — of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- phonics — a method of teaching reading and spelling based upon the phonetic interpretation of ordinary spelling.
- phorcys — a sea god who fathered the Gorgons.
- photics — the science of light.
- picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- piceous — of, relating to, or resembling pitch.
- poaches — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- pockies — woollen mittens
- pocosin — a swamp or marsh in an upland coastal region.
- 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.
- poetics — poetics.
- polices — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- popsock — a knee-length nylon sock, worn under trousers
- postdoc — a postdoctoral award or scholar.
- pouches — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- process — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- proclus — a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
- proesch — Gilbert. Born 1942, an Italian artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with George Passmore
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosect — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- psionic — of or relating to psychic powers
- psycho- — Psycho- is added to words in order to form other words which describe or refer to things connected with the mind or with mental processes.
- scallop — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scapose — having scapes; consisting of a scape.
- scollop — (in Ireland) a rod, pointed at both ends, used to pin down thatch
- scooper — a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- scoping — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- scorper — scauper.
- scorpio — Astronomy. Scorpius.
- shoepac — a heavy, laced, waterproof boot.
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
- soupcon — a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
- spector — Phil. born 1940, US record producer and songwriter, noted for the densely orchestrated "Wall of Sound" in his work with groups such as the Ronettes and the Crystals; convicted in 2009 for the second-degree murder (2003) of actress Lana Clarkson
- splotch — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- syncope — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- tropics — The tropics are the parts of the world that lie between two lines of latitude, the tropic of Cancer, 23½° north of the equator, and the tropic of Capricorn, 23½° south of the equator.
- upcoast — along a coast in a northward direction