7-letter words containing s, p, e
- penates — the household gods of the ancient Romans
- peneios — Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- penis's — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pennies — a female given name, form of Penelope.
- penrose — Sir Roger. born 1931, British mathematician and theoretical physicist, noted for his investigation of black holes
- pensees — a collection of notes, essays, etc., dealing with religious and philosophical matters by Blaise Pascal, published posthumously in 1670.
- pensile — hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- pension — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- pensive — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- penster — a writer, esp of trivial things
- pentose — a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 1 0 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- penzias — Arno Allan, born 1933, U.S. astrophysicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in physics 1978.
- peoples — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- per say — a frequent misspelling of per se.
- percase — maybe; perhaps
- perches — a former division of N France.
- percuss — Medicine/Medical. to strike or tap for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
- perfuse — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- perhaps — maybe; possibly: Perhaps the package will arrive today.
- peritus — a Catholic theological expert and consultant who gives advice at an ecumenical council of the church
- perkins — Frances, 1882–1965, U.S. sociologist: Secretary of Labor 1933–45.
- perkish — to become lively, cheerful, or vigorous, as after depression or sickness (usually followed by up): The patients all perked up when we played the piano for them.
- perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- persant — sharp or stabbing
- perseid — any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- perseus — a son of Zeus and Danaë, who with Athena's help slew the Gorgon Medusa and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster
- persian — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
- persist — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- persius — (Aulus Persius Flaccus) a.d. 34–62, Roman satirist.
- person- — person (of either sex)
- persona — a person.
- persons — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- perspex — acrylic material: artificial glass
- persson — Göran [yœ-rahn] /ˈyœ rɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1949, prime minister of Sweden 1996–2006.
- pertest — boldly forward in speech or behavior; impertinent; saucy.
- pertuse — punctured or perforated
- perukes — a man's wig of the 17th and 18th centuries, usually powdered and gathered at the back of the neck with a ribbon; periwig.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- peruser — to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
- pesante — in a forceful or weighty manner
- pescara — a city in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- peshito — the standard translation of the Old and New Testaments in ancient Syriac
- pessary — a device worn in the vagina to support a displaced uterus.
- pessima — the lowest or worst state of affairs
- petasos — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- 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.
- petrous — denoting the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- 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.
- pettish — easily irritated, sulky