7-letter words containing p, s, i, t
- sapient — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- saw pit — a place for pit sawing.
- saw-pit — a place for pit sawing.
- sceptic — a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
- scripts — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- septime — the seventh of eight defensive positions.
- shilpit — (of a person) sickly; puny; feeble.
- silt up — If a river or lake silts up or something silts it up, it becomes blocked with silt.
- simpl-t — The base language for a family of languages and compilers.
- sit-ups — abdominal exercise
- skelpit — slapped
- skeptic — a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
- skippet — a small, round box for protecting an official or personal seal, as on a document.
- skipton — a market town in N England, in North Yorkshire: 11th-century castle. Pop: 14 313 (2001)
- slipout — an instance of slipping out
- snaptin — a container for food
- snippet — a small piece snipped off; a small bit, scrap, or fragment: an anthology of snippets.
- 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
- spastic — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
- spathic — like spar.
- spatial — of or relating to space.
- specist — discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
- spicate — having spikes, as a plant.
- spilite — a type of igneous rock
- spinate — having thorns or a spine
- spinout — a spinning slide or skid by a motor vehicle that is out of control
- spirant — fricative (def 2).
- spirits — an emotional state, esp with regard to exaltation or dejection
- spirity — spirited
- spit up — to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate.
- 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.
- spiting — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spitted — to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate.
- spitter — brocket (def 2).
- spittle — saliva; spit.
- split-c — Parallel extension of C for distributed memory multiprocessors. Aims to provide efficient low-level access to the underlying machine.
- sportif — sporty
- 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.
- spottie — a young deer of up to three months of age
- spraint — a piece of otter's dung
- spriest — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- spright — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- sputnik — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.
- step in — (of garments, shoes, etc.) put on by being stepped into.
- step it — to dance
- step-in — (of garments, shoes, etc.) put on by being stepped into.
- stickup — a holdup; robbery.
- stipend — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- stipple — to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.