7-letter words containing p, i, t, s
- piarist — a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- piaster — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- piastre — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- pictish — the language of the Picts, apparently a Celtic language.
- pieties — You refer to statements about what is morally right as pieties when you think they are insincere or unrealistic.
- pietism — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- pietist — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pilotis — a column of iron, steel, or reinforced concrete supporting a building above an open ground level.
- pinsent — Sir Matthew (Clive). born 1970, British oarsman; won four gold medals in rowing events at consecutive Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004)
- piosity — an excessive or obvious show of piety; sanctimoniousness.
- pissant — Slang: Vulgar. a person or thing of no value or consequence; a despicable person or thing.
- pisspot — a chamber pot.
- pistoia — a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- pit saw — a large saw used, esp. formerly, to cut timber lengthwise and worked by two men, one standing above the log, the other in a pit below it
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- piteous — evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- pitesti — a city in S central Romania, on the Argeş River.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- plastid — a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.
- plenist — a person who adheres to the philosophical theory of plenism
- ploesti — a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
- poetics — poetics.
- pollist — a person who advocates the use of polls
- poloist — a person who plays or is devoted to polo
- posited — to place, put, or set.
- positif — (on older organs) a manual controlling soft stops
- positon — a proton
- post-it — Post-its or Post-it notes are small pieces of paper that are sticky on one side. You write a note on the other side and stick the paper onto a surface.
- postfix — to affix at the end of something; append; suffix.
- posting — Chiefly British. a single dispatch or delivery of mail. the mail itself. the letters and packages being delivered to a single recipient. an established mail system or service, especially under government authority.
- presift — to sift something preliminarily
- priests — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- primest — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- prostie — a prostitute.
- protist — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- pursuit — the act of pursuing: in pursuit of the fox.
- pushpit — a safety rail at the stern of a boat
- pyrites — pyrite.
- pythias — the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracles.
- rappist — Harmonist.
- reposit — to put back; replace.
- respite — a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief: to toil without respite.
- resplit — to split again
- riposte — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- ripstop — a type of woven fabric that is resistant against tears and rips
- sandpit — a deep pit in sandy soil from which sand is excavated.