7-letter words containing p, e, s, i
- memphis — a group of international designers and architects, formed in the 1980s and based in Milan, whose work is characterized by the use of bold colors, geometric shapes, and unconventional, often playful, designs.
- mendips — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
- midstep — During a step.
- miskeep — to keep or look after wrongly, badly, or carelessly
- mispage — page wrongly
- mispell — Misspelling of misspell.
- mispelt — Misspelling of misspelt.
- misstep — a wrong step.
- mistype — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- muspike — a N American freshwater fish developed by cross-breeding muskellunge and pike
- nappies — Plural form of nappy.
- nippers — a person or thing that nips.
- nipples — Plural form of nipple.
- oedipus — a king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, and the father by Jocasta of Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismeme: as was prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile.
- opiates — Plural form of opiate.
- orpines — Plural form of orpine.
- paddies — a rice field.
- paisley — a soft woolen fabric woven with a pattern of colorful and minutely detailed figures.
- palsied — paralyzed; unable to move or control certain muscles.
- pansied — covered with pansies
- panties — panties.
- paresis — partial motor paralysis.
- parises — a Trojan prince, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Cassandra, who awarded the apple of discord to Aphrodite and was by her help enabled to abduct Helen.
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parties — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- passive — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- pasties — of or like paste in consistency, texture, color, etc.
- pastime — something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport: to play cards as a pastime.
- paviser — a soldier bearing or using a pavise
- pe-tsai — Chinese cabbage.
- peakish — to become weak, thin, and sickly.
- peckish — somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
- pedesis — the random motion of particles in a liquid or gas; Brownian motion
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- peishwa — a leader of the Maratha people
- pelasgi — the pre-Hellenic peoples who inhabited Greece and the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks
- pelisse — an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- peneios — Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- penis's — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pennies — a female given name, form of Penelope.
- pensile — hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- pension — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- pensive — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- penzias — Arno Allan, born 1933, U.S. astrophysicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in physics 1978.
- peritus — a Catholic theological expert and consultant who gives advice at an ecumenical council of the church
- perkins — Frances, 1882–1965, U.S. sociologist: Secretary of Labor 1933–45.
- perkish — to become lively, cheerful, or vigorous, as after depression or sickness (usually followed by up): The patients all perked up when we played the piano for them.
- perseid — any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- persian — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
- persist — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.