7-letter words containing s, a, o, t
- harmost — a person serving the ancient Spartans as governor of a subject or conquered town.
- haroset — a mixture of chopped nuts and apples, wine, and spices that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover: traditionally regarded as symbolic of the mortar used by Israelite slaves in Egypt.
- hostage — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hotwash — Discussions and evaluations of an agency's (or multiple agencies') performance following an exercise, training session, or major event.
- impasto — the laying on of paint thickly.
- iobates — a Lycian king commissioned by his son-in-law, Proetus, to kill Bellerophon: after surviving ordeals designed to destroy him, Bellerophon was believed to be divinely protected, and Iobates gave him half his kingdom.
- iodates — Plural form of iodate.
- isobath — an imaginary line or one drawn on a map connecting all points of equal depth below the surface of a body of water.
- isocrat — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- isolate — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- isolato — a person who is spiritually isolated from or out of sympathy with his or her times or society.
- isotach — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points where winds of equal speeds have been recorded.
- jocasta — Classical Mythology. a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius and the mother, later the wife, of Oedipus, by whom she bore Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone: called Epicaste by Homer.
- kao tsu — (Kao TsuorGao Zu) a.d. 565–635, Chinese emperor 618–27: founder of the Tang dynasty.
- kotwals — Plural form of kotwal.
- kyathos — a deep bowl set on a foot, often having a high voluted or serpentine handle rising from the brim and terminating immediately above the juncture of the body and the stem: used for ladling wine into drinking cups.
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- lampost — Alternative spelling of lamppost.
- lao-tse — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
- laptops — Plural form of laptop.
- latigos — Plural form of latigo.
- latinos — Plural form of latino.
- latosol — a reddish lateritic soil of the tropics, deeply weathered and infertile, characterized by hydroxides of iron and aluminum.
- layouts — Plural form of layout.
- loathes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loathe.
- locates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of locate.
- locusta — the spikelet of grasses
- loggats — (in Britiain, formerly) a game played by throwing sticks at a stake
- lolcats — Plural form of lolcat.
- loquats — Plural form of loquat.
- maestro — an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music: Toscanini and other great maestros.
- maggots — Plural form of maggot.
- mahouts — Plural form of mahout.
- maltose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- marmots — Plural form of marmot.
- marston — John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- mascots — Plural form of mascot.
- mastoid — of or relating to the mastoid process.
- matrons — Plural form of matron.
- matross — an artilleryman who ranked below a gunner and who acted as a gunner's assistant, aiding in the loading and firing of guns
- matsudo — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- mobcast — a podcast created and uploaded using a mobile phone
- mortals — Plural form of mortal.
- mortars — Plural form of mortar.
- moscato — A sweet Italian dessert wine.
- nations — Plural form of nation.
- natsopa — National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel
- nonpast — a tense that is not the past tense, a non-past tense
- norstad — Lauris [lawr-is,, lohr-] /ˈlɔr ɪs,, ˈloʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1907–1988, U.S. Air Force general: Supreme Allied Commander of NATO 1956–63.