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7-letter words containing p, i, s

  • size-up — an appraisal or estimation, especially as the result of sizing up: asking for a size-up of the new office equipment.
  • skelpit — slapped
  • skepsis — doubt
  • skeptic — a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
  • skidpan — an area made slippery so that vehicle drivers can practise controlling skids
  • skimper — to scrimp.
  • skin up — to roll (a cannabis cigarette)
  • skipped — to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot.
  • skipper — a person or thing that skips.
  • skippet — a small, round box for protecting an official or personal seal, as on a document.
  • skipton — a market town in N England, in North Yorkshire: 11th-century castle. Pop: 14 313 (2001)
  • slip in — person: fit into schedule
  • slip up — an act or instance of slipping.
  • slip-on — made without buttons, straps, zippers, etc., so as to be put on easily and quickly: a slip-on blouse; slip-on shoes.
  • slip-up — a mistake, blunder, or oversight: Several slip-ups caused a delay in the delivery of the books.
  • sliping — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
  • slipout — an instance of slipping out
  • slipped — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • slipper — any light, low-cut shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, for casual wear in the home, for dancing, etc. Compare bedroom slipper, house slipper.
  • slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
  • sloping — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
  • snap-in — designed to be attached or held by snapping into position by snaps.
  • snaptin — a container for food
  • sniping — the action of attacking a person or persons with a rifle from a place of concealment
  • 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.
  • soliped — solidungulate.
  • sonship — the state, fact, or relation of being a son.
  • sophies — a female given name.
  • sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
  • 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.
  • sopping — soaked; drenched: Her clothes were sopping from the rain.
  • 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
  • soupfin — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • spacial — of or relating to space.
  • spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
  • spacing — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
  • spading — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
  • spammie — a lovebite
  • spaniel — one of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized dogs, usually having a long, silky coat and long, drooping ears.
  • spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
  • sparing — kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
  • sparkie — an electrician
  • sparoid — resembling or pertaining to the porgy family, Sparidae.
  • spasmic — convulsive
  • spastic — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
  • spathic — like spar.
  • spatial — of or relating to space.
  • special — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
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