7-letter words containing p, o, t, s
- 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
- scopate — pollen brush.
- seaport — a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
- set-top — denoting a device designed to sit atop a television and serve as a link to interactive communications systems: set-top boxes that allow viewers to order movies on demand.
- shopbot — a website that offers price comparisons for particular products
- shot up — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- skipton — a market town in N England, in North Yorkshire: 11th-century castle. Pop: 14 313 (2001)
- slipout — an instance of slipping out
- snap to — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- 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.
- 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
- spalato — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: Roman ruins.
- spambot — a bot that searches the Internet for email addresses in order to send spam.
- spector — Phil. born 1940, US record producer and songwriter, noted for the densely orchestrated "Wall of Sound" in his work with groups such as the Ronettes and the Crystals; convicted in 2009 for the second-degree murder (2003) of actress Lana Clarkson
- spinout — a spinning slide or skid by a motor vehicle that is out of control
- 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.
- splotch — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- spoleto — a city in Perugia, Italy
- sporont — (in the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) an encysted spore developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.
- sported — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- sporter — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- sportif — sporty
- spot ad — a brief advertisement broadcast in a programme break
- spot tv — the production or airing of television commercials.
- spot-on — Spot-on means exactly correct or accurate.
- 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.
- spotted — Radio, Television. pertaining to the point of origin of a local broadcast. broadcast between announced programs.
- spotter — a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
- spottie — a young deer of up to three months of age
- spouted — fitted with a spout: a spouted pitcher.
- spouter — to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
- sprouts — newly grown shoots or buds
- spy out — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- step on — made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- step-on — made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- stepson — a son of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- steptoe — an isolated hill or mountain surrounded by lava.
- stewpot — a large, heavy, covered pot used for making stews.
- stomper — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stompie — a cigarette butt
- stooped — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stooper — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stop by — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stop in — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stop up — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stop-by — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stop-go — Stop-go is used to describe processes in which there are periods of inactivity between periods of activity.
- stopgap — something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift: Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
- stoping — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.