7-letter words containing s, p, e, r
- imprest — impressment.
- inspire — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- isopyre — an impure variety of opal, containing alumina, lime, and iron sesquioxide.
- jaspers — a city in NW Alabama.
- jaspery — containing or composed of jasper.
- jeepers — Used to express surprise or alarm.
- jumpers — Plural form of jumper.
- keepers — Plural form of keeper.
- kippers — Plural form of kipper.
- lampers — lampas.
- lapsers — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- leapers — Plural form of leaper.
- leprose — leprous.
- leprosy — a chronic, mildly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the peripheral nervous system, skin, and nasal mucosa and variously characterized by ulcerations, tubercular nodules, and loss of sensation that sometimes leads to traumatic amputation of the anesthetized part.
- leprous — Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- loopers — Plural form of looper.
- loppers — long-handled pruning shears.
- lumpers — Plural form of lumper.
- maspero — Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- nappers — Plural form of napper.
- nephros — (anatomy) A kidney-like organ.
- nippers — a person or thing that nips.
- oosperm — a fertilized ovum; zygote
- oospore — a fertilized egg within an oogonium.
- openers — a person or thing that opens.
- operons — Plural form of operon.
- operose — industrious, as a person.
- opposer — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- oropesa — a float used in minesweeping
- orpheus — Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- orpines — Plural form of orpine.
- ospreys — Plural form of osprey.
- oversup — to eat or drink too much
- pampers — disposable diapers of soft, absorbent paper with an outer covering of thin plastic
- pareses — partial motor paralysis.
- paresis — partial motor paralysis.
- parises — a Trojan prince, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Cassandra, who awarded the apple of discord to Aphrodite and was by her help enabled to abduct Helen.
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parsley — an herb, Pertoselinum crispum, native to the Mediterranean, having either curled leaf clusters (French parsley) or flat compound leaves (Italian parsley) widely cultivated for use in garnishing or seasoning food. Compare parsley family.
- parties — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- pasmore — Victor. 1908–98, British artist. Originally a figurative painter, he devoted himself to abstract paintings and reliefs after 1947
- pastern — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- 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.
- paviser — a soldier bearing or using a pavise
- pearson — Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- peepers — a person who peeps in an abnormally prying manner; a voyeur.
- peeress — the wife or widow of a peer.
- peevers — hopscotch