7-letter words containing s, p, o, n
- orphans — Plural form of orphan.
- orpines — Plural form of orpine.
- outspan — to unyoke or unhitch, as oxen from a wagon.
- paesano — an Italian-American man
- paisano — paisan.
- panhoss — pannhas.
- pannose — having the texture of felt or woolen cloth.
- paoshan — a town in W Yunnan province, in S China, on the Burma Road.
- parison — a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- parsons — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- pass on — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
- pearson — Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- peneios — Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- penrose — Sir Roger. born 1931, British mathematician and theoretical physicist, noted for his investigation of black holes
- 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.
- pentose — a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 1 0 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- person- — person (of either sex)
- persona — a person.
- persons — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- persson — Göran [yœ-rahn] /ˈyœ rɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1949, prime minister of Sweden 1996–2006.
- phonics — a method of teaching reading and spelling based upon the phonetic interpretation of ordinary spelling.
- phonies — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- plasmon — the sum total of plasmagenes in a cell
- plosion — the forced release of the occlusive phase of a plosive, whether voiceless or voiced, either audible due to frication or inaudible due to a contiguous following consonant. Also called explosion. Compare implosion (def 2).
- pocosin — a swamp or marsh in an upland coastal region.
- poisson — Siméon Denis (simeɔ̃ dəni). 1781–1840, French mathematician, noted for his application of mathematical theory to physics, esp electricity and magnetism
- porsena — Lars (lɑːz). 6th century bc, a legendary Etruscan king, alleged to have besieged Rome in a vain attempt to reinstate Tarquinius Superbus on the throne
- posaune — an organ reed with a tone resembling a trombone
- positon — a proton
- posteen — an Afghan jacket made of leather and with a wool lining
- postern — a back door or gate.
- posting — Chiefly British. a single dispatch or delivery of mail. the mail itself. the letters and packages being delivered to a single recipient. an established mail system or service, especially under government authority.
- postman — a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- postnet — an official postal service in South Africa
- potents — a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
- poussin — Nicolas [nee-kaw-lah] /ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1594–1655, French painter.
- pozsony — Hungarian name of Bratislava.
- presong — of the period before a song is sung
- preston — a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- pronaos — (in a classical temple) an open vestibule before the cella.
- protons — a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- psammon — the community of microscopic life forms living between grains of sand on shores
- psionic — of or relating to psychic powers
- pulsion — the act of driving forward
- push on — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- pythons — a large dragon who guarded the chasm at Delphi from which prophetic vapors emerged. He was finally killed by Apollo, who established his oracle on the site.
- respond — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- sampson — Deborah, 1760–1827, U.S. Revolutionary War soldier who fought disguised as a man.
- saponin — any of a group of amorphous glycosides of terpenes and steroids, occurring in many plants, characterized by an ability to form emulsions and to foam in aqueous solutions, and used as detergents.