7-letter words containing p, e, n, s
- senopia — the improvement of near-sight often accompanying old age due to nuclear sclerosis
- serpens — a faint extensive constellation situated in the N and S equatorial regions and divided into two parts, Serpens Caput (the head) lying between Ophiuchus and Boötes and Serpens Cauda (the tail) between Ophiuchus and Aquila
- serpent — a snake.
- sharpen — knife: make sharper
- shippen — a cowshed
- snapped — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- snapper — any of several large marine food fishes of the family Lutjanidae.
- snipped — to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
- snipper — a hairdresser
- snippet — a small piece snipped off; a small bit, scrap, or fragment: an anthology of snippets.
- snooped — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- snooper — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- spaeman — a man who foretells the future
- spancel — a noosed rope with which to hobble an animal, especially a horse or cow.
- spandex — a synthetic fiber composed of a long-chain polymer, used chiefly in the manufacture of garments to add elasticity.
- spangle — a small, thin, often circular piece of glittering metal or other material, used especially for decorating garments.
- spaniel — one of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized dogs, usually having a long, silky coat and long, drooping ears.
- spanked — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
- spanker — Nautical. a fore-and-aft sail on the aftermost lower mast of a sailing vessel having three or more masts. a designation given to the mast abaft a mizzenmast, usually the aftermost mast in any vessel.
- spanned — the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended.
- spanner — a person or thing that spans.
- specing — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- speldin — a fish that has been split and dried
- spelean — of, relating to, or inhabiting a cave or caves.
- spelunk — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spemann — Hans [hahns] /hɑns/ (Show IPA), 1869–1941, German zoologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1935.
- spencer — Charles, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1674–1722, British statesman: prime minister 1718–21.
- spender — Stephen, 1909–96, English poet and critic.
- spenser — Edmund, c1552–99, English poet.
- spented — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- sphenic — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheno- — having the shape of a wedge
- spignel — a European umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum, of mountain regions, having white flowers and finely divided aromatic leaves
- spinate — having thorns or a spine
- spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spinner — a person or thing that spins.
- spinney — a small wood or thicket.
- spinode — cusp (def 3).
- spinose — full of spines; spiniferous; spinous.
- spinule — a small spine.
- spleeny — abundant in or displaying spleen.
- splenic — of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen: splenic nerves.
- spleno- — the spleen
- splined — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- spokane — a city in E Washington.
- spondee — a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .
- sponger — a person or thing that sponges.
- spooney — spoony.
- springe — a snare for catching small game.
- spumone — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.