7-letter words containing s, a, u
- passout — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paystub — A paystub is a piece of paper given to an employee when he or she is paid stating how much money has been earned and how much has been taken from that sum for things such as tax.
- peanuts — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- pegasus — 1. (networking, product) A product to support Internet searches, electronic mail, and Usenet news. 2. (project) An open source project run by The Open Group which implements a Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- petasus — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- phallus — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- piraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- plautus — Titus Maccius [tahy-tuh s mak-see-uh s] /ˈtaɪ təs ˈmæk si əs/ (Show IPA), c254–c184 b.c, Roman dramatist.
- playbus — a mobile playground
- posaune — an organ reed with a tone resembling a trombone
- pousada — a government-operated inn in Portugal.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- prussia — a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles)
- pulaski — a double-edged hand tool having an ax blade on one side and a pickax or wide chisel on the opposite side, used especially in clearing land and removing tree stumps.
- pulsant — pulsating; vibrant
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- pursual — the act of pursuit
- purusha — (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
- qdjanus — A Janus-to-Prolog compiler by Saumya Debray <[email protected]>. It is meant to be used with Sicstus Prolog and is mostly compliant with "Programming in Janus" by Saraswat, Kahn, and Levy.
- quaeres — Plural form of quaere.
- quaggas — Plural form of quagga.
- quahogs — Plural form of quahog.
- quamash — camass.
- quamish — queasy; having an upset stomach; qualmish.
- quangos — Plural form of quango.
- quarles — Francis, 1592–1644, English poet.
- quartes — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quartos — Plural form of quarto.
- quasars — one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
- quashed — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
- quashee — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quasher — someone who quells or suppresses
- quashes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quash.
- quassia — a shrub or small tree, Quassia amara, of tropical America, having pinnate leaves, showy red flowers, and wood with a bitter taste. Compare quassia family.
- quassin — a bitter crystalline substance
- quavers — (of a person's voice) Shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.
- quesnay — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1694–1774, French economist and physician.
- quokkas — Plural form of quokka.
- railbus — a bus-like vehicle for use on railway lines
- ramulus — a small branch or branchlet
- rastrum — a pen for drawing the five lines of a musical stave simultaneously
- raucous — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- recusal — the disqualification of a judge for a particular lawsuit or proceeding, especially due to some possible conflict of interest or prejudice.