7-letter words containing s, p, u, r
- punster — a person who makes puns frequently.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- purpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- pursily — in a pursy manner
- pursing — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- pursual — the act of pursuit
- pursued — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuer — a person or thing that pursues.
- pursues — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuit — the act of pursuing: in pursuit of the fox.
- purusha — (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
- pushrod — a rod in an overhead-valve engine that is part of the linkage used to open and close the valves.
- pylorus — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pyrrhus — c318–272 b.c, king of Epirus c300–272.
- repulse — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- restump — to provide (a building) with new stumps
- rise up — move upwards
- sarapul — a city in the SE Udmurt Autonomous Republic, in the W Russian Federation in Asia, SE of Izhevsk, on the Kama River.
- scauper — a graver with a flattened or hollowed blade, used in engraving.
- screwup — a mistake or blunder: The package was delayed through an addressing screwup.
- scrumpy — strong English cider
- scruple — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- scupper — Nautical. a drain at the edge of a deck exposed to the weather, for allowing accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges. Compare freeing port.
- seropus — a liquid consisting of mingled serum and pus
- serpula — a member of a genus of marine annelid or tubeworm belonging to the Serpulid family, characterized by the serpentine calcareous tube it produces and inhabits
- slurper — a person who slurps his or her food or drink
- soursop — the large, dark-green, slightly acid, pulpy fruit of a small West Indian tree, Annona muricata, of the annona family.
- 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.
- splurge — to indulge oneself in some luxury or pleasure, especially a costly one: They splurged on a trip to Europe.
- splurgy — ostentatious
- sporule — a spore, especially a small one.
- spouter — to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
- sprague — Frank Julian, 1857–1934, U.S. electrical engineer and inventor.
- sprouts — newly grown shoots or buds
- spruing — Metallurgy. an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold. the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- spudder — a person who prepares and operates a rig for drilling oil wells.
- spur on — encourage
- spuriae — the feathers on the bastard wing of a bird
- spurned — to reject with disdain; scorn.
- spurred — having a spur or spurs.
- spurrey — spurry.
- spurter — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spurtle — a stick used to stir porridge.
- spurway — a path used by horse riders
- sputter — to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.
- startup — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- 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.
- 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.
- stumper — a person or thing that stumps.
- subpart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.