7-letter words containing s, c, p, i
- inspect — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- ipecacs — Plural form of ipecac.
- ipswich — a city in SE Suffolk, in E England.
- isopach — a line drawn on a map connecting all points of equal thickness of a particular geologic formation.
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- miscopy — to copy incorrectly: to miscopy an address.
- mispick — a pick or filling yarn that has failed to interlace with the warp as a result of a mechanical defect in the loom.
- opsonic — of, relating to, or influenced by opsonin; capable of promoting phagocytosis.
- pachisi — a board game, originated in ancient India, in which four players advance four pieces each along a route on a cross-shaped board toward a center square by throws of cowrie shells or dice.
- passaic — a city in NE New Jersey.
- pci bus — Peripheral Component Interconnect
- peckish — somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
- petscii — (character) /pet'skee/ PET ASCII. The variation (many would say perversion) of the ASCII character set used by the Commodore Business Machines' PET series of personal computers and the later Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128 computers. The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218, and added graphic characters.
- phonics — a method of teaching reading and spelling based upon the phonetic interpretation of ordinary spelling.
- photics — the science of light.
- physics — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- piceous — of, relating to, or resembling pitch.
- pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- pictish — the language of the Picts, apparently a Celtic language.
- pincase — a case for holding pins
- pincers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- piscary — Law. the right or privilege of fishing in particular waters.
- piscean — a person born under the sign of Pisces.
- piscina — a basin with a drain used for certain ablutions, now generally in the sacristy.
- piscine — of, relating to, or resembling a fish or fishes.
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- pockies — woollen mittens
- pocosin — a swamp or marsh in an upland coastal region.
- poetics — poetics.
- polices — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- precise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prussic — of or derived from prussic acid.
- psionic — of or relating to psychic powers
- psychic — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- puckish — mischievous; impish.
- respice — any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
- sapphic — pertaining to Sappho or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by or named after her.
- scepsis — a philosophical attitude of doubt or scepticism
- sceptic — a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
- scoping — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- scorpio — Astronomy. Scorpius.
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- scrimpy — scanty; meager; barely adequate.
- scripps — Edward Wyllis [wil-is] /ˈwɪl ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1854–1926, U.S. newspaper publisher.
- scripts — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- sculpin — any small, freshwater fish of the genus Cottus, of the family Cottidae, having a large head with one or more spines on each side; bullhead.
- skeptic — a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.