7-letter words containing p, l
- spalato — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: Roman ruins.
- spaller — a person or thing that spalls
- spancel — a noosed rope with which to hobble an animal, especially a horse or cow.
- spangle — a small, thin, often circular piece of glittering metal or other material, used especially for decorating garments.
- spangly — Spangly clothes are decorated with a lot of small shiny objects.
- spaniel — one of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized dogs, usually having a long, silky coat and long, drooping ears.
- sparkle — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- sparkly — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spathal — having a spathe
- spatial — of or relating to space.
- spatula — an implement with a broad, flat, usually flexible blade, used for blending foods or removing them from cooking utensils, mixing drugs, spreading plasters and paints, etc.
- spatule — a spatula
- spatzle — spaetzle.
- special — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- speckle — a small speck, spot, or mark, as on skin.
- specula — a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
- speeler — an acrobat
- speldin — a fish that has been split and dried
- spelean — of, relating to, or inhabiting a cave or caves.
- spelled — to take the place of for a time; relieve: Let me spell you at the wheel.
- speller — a person who spells words.
- spelter — zinc, especially in the form of ingots.
- spelunk — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spheral — of or relating to a sphere.
- spicula — a spicule.
- spicule — a small or minute, slender, sharp-pointed body or part; a small, needlelike crystal, process, or the like.
- spiegel — a lustrous, crystalline pig iron containing a large amount of manganese, sometimes 15 percent or more, used in making steel.
- spieler — a barker, as at a circus sideshow.
- spignel — a European umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum, of mountain regions, having white flowers and finely divided aromatic leaves
- spiling — a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spilite — a type of igneous rock
- 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.
- spindly — long or tall, thin, and usually frail: The colt wobbled on its spindly legs.
- spinule — a small spine.
- spirula — any cephalopod of the genus Spirula, having a flat, spiral shell that is partly inside and partly outside the posterior part of the body.
- spitbol — SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL. "Macro SPITBOL - A SNOBOL4 Compiler", R.B.K. Dewar et al, Soft Prac & Exp 7:95-113, 1971. Current versions: SPITBOL-68000, Sparc SPITBOL from Catspaw Inc, (719)539-3884.
- spittle — saliva; spit.
- splash! — 1. Software Research Northwest, 1987. Compiler for SPL[3]. 2. Systems Programming LAnguage for Software Hackers. Mentioned in TeX for the Impatient, Paul W. Abrahams, A-W 1990.
- splashy — making a splash or splashes.
- splatch — a large splash or splatter
- splayed — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- spleeny — abundant in or displaying spleen.
- splenic — of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen: splenic nerves.
- spleno- — the spleen
- splicer — a device used to hold two sections of motion-picture film, recording tape, etc., in proper alignment while they are being spliced together.
- splined — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- split-c — Parallel extension of C for distributed memory multiprocessors. Aims to provide efficient low-level access to the underlying machine.
- splodge — blot, splotch
- sploosh — to splash or cause to splash about uncontrollably
- splotch — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.