7-letter words containing p, l
- splurge — to indulge oneself in some luxury or pleasure, especially a costly one: They splurged on a trip to Europe.
- splurgy — ostentatious
- spoiled — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- spoiler — a person or thing that spoils.
- spoleto — a city in Perugia, Italy
- spondyl — a vertebra or something like a vertebra
- sponsal — relating to marriage
- spooler — someone whose job is to wind cotton or yarn onto spools
- sporule — a spore, especially a small one.
- spotlit — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- spousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- sprawly — tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.
- spuddle — a feeble movement
- spulyie — to plunder
- spurtle — a stick used to stir porridge.
- spyhole — peephole in a door, etc.
- stapler — a person who staples wool.
- steeple — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- steeply — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
- stempel — a timber support or crossbar, often used as a step in mines
- stemple — a timber support or crossbar, often used as a step in mines
- stipple — to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.
- stipule — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stopple — a stopper, especially for a bottle.
- stylops — any insect of the order Strepsiptera, including the genus Stylops, living as a parasite in other insects, esp bees and wasps: the females remain in the body of the host but the males move between hosts
- subplot — a secondary or subordinate plot, as in a play, novel, or other literary work; underplot. Compare counterplot (def 2).
- suiplap — a drunkard
- sulphur — a city in SW Louisiana.
- sunlamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
- suppler — bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible: a supple bough.
- supplex — a type of synthetic fabric which is breathable, stretchable, and fast-drying, used esp for sportswear
- surplus — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- swipple — the freely swinging part of a flail, which falls upon the grain in threshing; swingle.
- sylphic — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- sylphid — a little or young sylph.
- syslisp — System language used in the implementation of Portable Standard Lisp. Mentioned in "The Evolution of Lisp", G.L. Steele et al, SIGPLAN Notices 28(3):231-270 (Mar 1993).
- sysplex — (operating system) An IBM term for communicating MVS systems. See also "Parallel Sysplex".
- t-plate — a metal plate shaped like a T used to strengthen or effect a right-angled joint between two beams, etc
- tadpole — the aquatic larva or immature form of frogs and toads, especially after the development of the internal gills and before the appearance of the forelimbs and the resorption of the tail.
- taliped — (of a foot) twisted or distorted out of shape or position.
- talipes — a clubfoot.
- talipot — a tall palm, Corypha umbraculifera, of southern India and Ceylon, having large fronds used for making fans and umbrellas, for covering houses, and in place of writing paper: also grown as an ornamental.
- talk up — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tampala — a branching tropical plant, Amaranthus tricolor, of the amaranth family, cultivated in Asia as a green vegetable.
- taphole — a hole in a blast furnace, steelmaking furnace, etc., through which molten metal or slag is tapped off.
- taplash — the dregs of beer or liquor; stale beer
- telcomp — (language) A variant of JOSS.
- telepac — (networking) The Swiss PTT X.25 network.
- telepic — a feature-length film made for television
- telpher — Also, teleferic. a traveling unit, car, or carrier suspended from cables in a telpherage, an aerial transportation system.