7-letter words containing s, a, o
- soyinka — Wole [woh-ley] /ˈwoʊ leɪ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1986.
- 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.
- sparoid — resembling or pertaining to the porgy family, Sparidae.
- sparrow — any of numerous American finches of the family Emberizinae. Compare chipping sparrow, song sparrow.
- spinoza — Baruch [buh-rook] /bəˈruk/ (Show IPA), or Benedict de [ben-uh-dikt duh] /ˈbɛn ə dɪkt də/ (Show IPA), 1632–77, Dutch philosopher.
- spokane — a city in E Washington.
- sponsal — relating to marriage
- sporran — (in Scottish Highland costume) a large pouch for men, commonly of fur, worn, suspended from a belt, in front of the kilt.
- spot ad — a brief advertisement broadcast in a programme break
- spousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- squacco — a S European heron, Ardeola ralloides, with a short thick neck and a buff-coloured plumage with white wings
- squalor — the condition of being squalid; filth and misery.
- squamo- — squama
- squanto — died 1622, North American Indian of the Narragansett tribe: interpreter for the Pilgrims.
- st-malo — seaport & resort town on an island in the Gulf of St-Malo, NW France: pop. 46,000
- stalino — a former name of Donetsk.
- stamnos — a storage jar having an oval body tapering at the base and two horizontal handles set on the shoulder.
- stanton — Edwin McMasters [muh k-mas-terz,, -mah-sterz] /məkˈmæs tərz,, -ˈmɑ stərz/ (Show IPA), 1814–69, U.S. statesman: Secretary of War 1862–67.
- stardom — the world or class of professional stars, as of the stage.
- starmod — *MOD
- station — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- statohm — the electrostatic unit of resistance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 ohms and equal to the resistance in a conductor in which one statvolt of potential difference produces a current of one statampere.
- stay on — remain
- steato- — denoting fat
- stoical — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- stomach — Anatomy, Zoology. a saclike enlargement of the alimentary canal, as in humans and certain animals, forming an organ for storing, diluting, and digesting food. such an organ or an analogous portion of the alimentary canal when divided into two or more sections or parts. any one of these sections.
- stomata — a plural of stoma.
- stomate — stoma (def 1).
- stopgap — something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift: Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
- storage — the act of storing; state or fact of being stored: All my furniture is in storage.
- stowage — an act or operation of stowing.
- strato- — denoting stratus
- stromal — of or relating to stroma
- suasion — the act of advising, urging, or attempting to persuade; persuasion.
- suasory — the act of advising, urging, or attempting to persuade; persuasion.
- subatom — any component of an atom.
- subgoal — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- suboral — under the mouth
- suboval — not quite oval
- sudatio — (in an ancient Roman bath) a chamber, between the sudatorium and the calidarium, where sweat was removed.
- suharto — 1921–2008, Indonesian army officer and political leader: president 1967–98.
- sukarno — Achmed [ahk-med] /ˈɑk mɛd/ (Show IPA), 1901–1970, Indonesian statesman: president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–67.
- surcoat — a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- swallow — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- swanson — Gloria (Gloria Josephine May Swenson) 1899–1983, U.S. film actress.
- synanon — a method of psychotherapy for treating drug addicts, originally practised in the drug rehabilitation centres of the Synanon organization, founded in 1958 in Santa Monica, California
- synodal — an assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates, convoked pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical council.
- synovia — a lubricating fluid resembling the white of an egg, secreted by certain membranes, as those of the joints.
- tabasco — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.