7-letter words containing s, p, i, r, a
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- 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)
- rappist — Harmonist.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- sarapis — Serapis (def 1).
- 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.
- serapis — Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
- shapiro — Karl (Jay) 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.
- sharpie — sharper.
- spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
- sparing — kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
- sparkie — an electrician
- sparoid — resembling or pertaining to the porgy family, Sparidae.
- spiraea — any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- spirant — fricative (def 2).
- spirula — any cephalopod of the genus Spirula, having a flat, spiral shell that is partly inside and partly outside the posterior part of the body.
- spraint — a piece of otter's dung
- spuriae — the feathers on the bastard wing of a bird
- traipse — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- upraise — to raise up; lift or elevate.
- uprisal — a rising up
- upstair — up the stairs; to or on an upper floor.
- warship — a ship built or armed for combat purposes.