7-letter words containing p, o, t, s
- stopped — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stopper — a person or thing that stops.
- stopple — a stopper, especially for a bottle.
- strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
- stroppy — bad-tempered or hostile; quick to take offense.
- 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).
- sunspot — one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena.
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- symptom — any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
- tapajos — a river flowing NE through central Brazil to the Amazon. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- teashop — a tearoom.
- topless — lacking a top: a topless bathing suit.
- topmast — the mast next above a lower mast, usually formed as a separate spar from the lower mast and used to support the yards or rigging of a topsail or topsails.
- topmost — highest; uppermost.
- topples — to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
- tops-10 — /tops-ten/ DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favourite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore. See also ITS, TOPS-20, TWENEX, VMS, operating system. TOPS-10 was sometimes called BOTS-10 (from "bottoms-ten") as a comment on the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.
- tops-20 — TWENEX
- topsail — a sail, or either of a pair of sails, set immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast.
- topside — the upper side.
- topsman — a chief drover of herding cattle
- topsoil — the fertile, upper part of the soil.
- topspin — a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate forward.
- torpids — a series of boat races held at Oxford University
- toss up — to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
- toss-up — coin throw: decides sth
- tosspot — a tippler; drunkard.
- toyshop — an establishment where toys are sold and sometimes also manufactured.
- tropics — The tropics are the parts of the world that lie between two lines of latitude, the tropic of Cancer, 23½° north of the equator, and the tropic of Capricorn, 23½° south of the equator.
- tropism — an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.
- tropist — someone who uses tropes
- tsangpo — Zangbo
- typhose — of or relating to typhoid
- typhous — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
- upcoast — along a coast in a northward direction
- uphoist — to raise or hoist upwards
- upshoot — to shoot upwards
- utopism — utopianism.
- utopist — utopianism.
- washpot — A pot which holds water for washing.
- waypost — A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.