4-letter words containing s, p
- psbr — public sector borrowing requirement: the excess of government expenditure over receipts (mainly from taxation) that has to be financed by borrowing from the banks or the public
- psdn — (communications) Public Switched Data Network.
- psia — pounds per square inch, absolute
- psid — pounds per square inch, differential
- psig — pounds per square inch, gauge
- psis — the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- psl1 — the amount of money in circulation given by M1 plus most private-sector bank deposits and holdings of money-market instruments
- psl2 — the amount of money in circulation given by M4 plus building-society deposits
- psml — Processor System Modeling Language.
- psni — Police Service of Northern Ireland, established in 2000
- psnu — Partially Stiff Non Unions
- pspp — (statistics) A GNU version of SPSS.
- psro — Professional Standards Review Organization: a group of doctors and healthcare professionals monitoring the quality of medical care that is paid for by the federal government in a particular geographical area
- psst — used to attract attention
- pstn — Public Switched Telephone Network
- ptsd — PTSD is an abbreviation for post-traumatic stress disorder.
- puns — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- purs — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- puss — face: She smacked him in the puss.
- rasp — to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
- resp — respective(ly)
- risp — to rasp or to grate
- rrsp — Registered Retirement Savings Plan
- rspb — Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- rsvp — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- rtsp — Real Time Streaming Protocol
- sacp — South African Communist Party
- salp — any free-swimming, oceanic tunicate of the genus Salpa, having a transparent, more or less fusiform body.
- samp — coarsely ground corn.
- sapi — 1. (programming) Speech Application Programming Interface. 2. (programming) Scheduling Application Programming Interface. 3. (networking) Service Access Point Identifier.
- saps — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
- scop — an Old English bard or poet.
- scpi — Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
- scup — a sparid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., having a compressed body and high back.
- sdlp — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- seep — to pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance: Water seeps through cracks in the wall.
- sep. — Sep. is a written abbreviation for September. The more usual abbreviation is Sept.
- sepa — Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- sepp — Single Edge Processor Package
- seps — a legendary small, extremely poisonous snake referred to by various classical and medieval authors
- sept — the number seven.
- serp — search-engine results page: a web page that is generated by a search engine to display the results of a query or search.
- sgcp — Simple Gateway Control Protocol
- ship — a romantic relationship between fictional characters, especially one that people discuss, write about, or take an interest in, whether or not the romance actually exists in the original book, show, etc.: popular ships in fan fiction.
- shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- shpt — shipment
- simp — a fool; simpleton.
- siop — (formerly) the secret and central U.S. contingency plan for waging a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
- sipb — Student Information Processing Board, MIT.