7-letter words containing s, p, i, t
- stipule — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- stirpes — a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
- stirrup — a loop, ring, or other contrivance of metal, wood, leather, etc., suspended from the saddle of a horse to support the rider's foot.
- stompie — a cigarette butt
- stop in — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stoping — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- striped — having stripes or bands.
- striper — Military. a naval officer whose uniform sleeve displays stripes: a four-striper. an enlisted person of any of the armed services whose sleeve displays stripes denoting years of service: a six-striper.
- stripes — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- stupids — Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of "Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary geniuses.
- stypsis — the employment or application of styptics.
- styptic — serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
- suit up — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- talipes — a clubfoot.
- tenpins — (used with a singular verb) a form of bowling, played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.
- thespis — flourished 6th century b.c, Greek poet.
- tipsify — to make tipsy
- tipster — a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- topsail — a sail, or either of a pair of sails, set immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast.
- topside — the upper side.
- topsoil — the fertile, upper part of the soil.
- topspin — a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate forward.
- torpids — a series of boat races held at Oxford University
- 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.
- triceps — a muscle having three heads or points of origin, especially the muscle on the back of the arm, the action of which straightens the elbow.
- tripsis — the act of kneading the body to promote circulation or suppleness
- tropics — The tropics are the parts of the world that lie between two lines of latitude, the tropic of Cancer, 23½° north of the equator, and the tropic of Capricorn, 23½° south of the equator.
- tropism — an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.
- tropist — someone who uses tropes
- trypsin — a proteolytic enzyme of the pancreatic juice, capable of converting proteins into peptone.
- unspilt — not spilled
- unsplit — not split
- unstrip — to strip
- uphoist — to raise or hoist upwards
- upshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a higher gear.
- upskirt — indicating a photograph taken, usually surreptitiously, of a woman sitting or standing with her legs open in such a way that her underwear is exposed
- upstair — up the stairs; to or on an upper floor.
- utopism — utopianism.
- utopist — utopianism.
- wapitis — Plural form of wapiti.