7-letter words containing s, p
- peruser — to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
- pesante — in a forceful or weighty manner
- pescara — a city in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- peshito — the standard translation of the Old and New Testaments in ancient Syriac
- pessary — a device worn in the vagina to support a displaced uterus.
- pessima — the lowest or worst state of affairs
- petasos — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- petasus — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- petrous — denoting the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- petscii — (character) /pet'skee/ PET ASCII. The variation (many would say perversion) of the ASCII character set used by the Commodore Business Machines' PET series of personal computers and the later Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128 computers. The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218, and added graphic characters.
- pettish — easily irritated, sulky
- pevsner — Antoine (ɑ̃twan). 1886–1962, French constructivist sculptor and painter, born in Russia; brother of Naum Gabo
- phallus — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- phaseal — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phasing — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phasmid — any insect of the order Phasmida, comprising the walking sticks and leaf insects.
- phidias — c500–432? b.c, Greek sculptor.
- philips — one of the 12 apostles. Mark 3:18; John 1:43–48; 6:5–7.
- phillis — a feminine name
- philos. — philosopher
- phineas — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “serpent's mouth or oracle.”.
- phineus — a brother of Cepheus who was not brave enough to rescue his betrothed Andromeda from a sea monster and who was eventually turned to stone.
- phisher — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phlomis — a plant that belongs to the genus Phlomis and family Labiatae or Lamiaceae
- phobist — a person who suffers from an unusual fear or dread of something
- phoebus — Classical Mythology. Apollo as the sun god.
- 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.
- phorcys — a sea god who fathered the Gorgons.
- phoresy — (among insects and arachnids) a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another.
- phosph- — phospho-
- photics — the science of light.
- photism — a form of synesthesia in which a visual sensation, as of color or form, is produced by the sense of touch, hearing, etc.
- photius — a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.
- phrasal — of, consisting of, or of the nature of a phrase or phrases: phrasal construction.
- phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrases — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrensy — frenzy
- phrixus — a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
- phyllis — a name used in pastoral literature, as the Eclogues of Vergil, for a country girl or sweetheart.
- phys ed — physical education.
- physics — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- physio- — of or relating to nature or natural functions
- pianism — the artistry and technique of a pianist.
- pianist — a person who plays the piano, especially one who performs expertly or professionally.
- piarist — a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- piaster — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- piastre — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- piceous — of, relating to, or resembling pitch.