6-letter words containing s, i, p
- priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- primus — Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.
- prised — pry2 .
- prises — pry2 .
- prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- prissy — excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
- prosit — good health! cheers!
- prusik — a sliding knot that locks under pressure and can be used to form a loop (prusik loop) in which a climber can place his foot in order to stand or ascend a rope
- psocid — any of numerous minute winged insects of the family Psocidae (order Psocoptera), including most of the common barklice, having mouth parts adapted for chewing and feeding on fungi, lichens, algae, decaying plant material, etc., and occurring on the bark of trees and the leaves of plants.
- psoric — a cure for psora
- ptisan — a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- ptosis — a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- ptyxis — the folding of each individual leaf in a bud
- puisne — Law. younger; inferior in rank; junior, as in appointment.
- punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- puppis — a constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Vela and Canis Major, a section of which is crossed by the Milky Way
- purism — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- purist — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- putois — a brush to paint pottery
- pyosis — the formation of pus; suppuration.
- q-ship — an armed combat ship disguised as a merchant vessel to attract submarines within attack range.
- quipus — Plural form of quipu.
- rapids — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- repics — the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- reship — to ship again.
- ripest — having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- ripost — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- ripsaw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- riscpc — (computer) The final addition to Acorn's Archimedes family of personal computers, released in April 1994. The RiscPC allowed a second processor, e.g. an Intel 486 or a second ARM, to share the bus, memory and peripherals with the main processor. It also had full 24-bit colour graphics support. The Risc PC 600 (the first to be launched) had the new ARM600 processor and RISC OS 3.5. The RiscPC 700 had an ARM710 processor and RISC OS 3.6, and the SA had the StrongARM processor and RISC OS 3.7. RiscPCs are among the most energy efficient home computers.
- saipan — an island in and the capital of the North Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, about 1350 miles (2173 km) S of Japan: taken by U.S. forces June–July 1944. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- scampi — a large shrimp or prawn.
- schipa — Tito [tee-taw] /ˈti tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1965, Italian operatic tenor.
- scipio — Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major [puhb-lee-uh s kawr-neel-yuh s,, af-ri-key-nuh s,, -kan-uh s,, -kahn-] /ˈpʌb li əs kɔrˈnil yəs,, ˌæf rɪˈkeɪ nəs,, -ˈkæn əs,, -ˈkɑn-/ (Show IPA), ("Scipio the Elder") 237–183 b.c, Roman general who defeated Hannibal.
- scrimp — to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed by on): They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
- script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- sepsis — local or generalized invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins: dental sepsis; wound sepsis.
- septi- — seven
- septic — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- shairp — John Campbell ("Principal Shairp") 1819–85, English critic, poet, and educator.
- shippo — Japanese cloisonné-enamel work on metal or porcelain
- shrimp — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- signup — a token; indication.
- simpac — Early simulation language with fixed time steps. "Simpac User's Manual", R.P. Bennett et al, TM-602/000/000, Sys Devel Corp, Apr 1962.
- simpai — a long-tailed monkey native to Sumatra
- simpas — Event scheduling language, implemented as Pascal preprocessor. "SIMPAS - A Simulation Language Based on Pascal", R.M. Bryant in Proc 1980 Winter Sim Conf, T.I Oren et al eds, pp.559-572.
- simper — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- simple — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simply — in a simple manner; clearly and easily.
- sinope — a natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.