7-letter words containing s, p
- 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.
- push in — (of a crime) accomplished by waiting until a victim has unlocked or opened the door before making a forced entry.
- push on — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-in — (of a crime) accomplished by waiting until a victim has unlocked or opened the door before making a forced entry.
- push-up — an exercise in which a person, keeping a prone position with the hands palms down under the shoulders, the balls of the feet on the ground, and the back straight, pushes the body up and lets it down by an alternate straightening and bending of the arms.
- pushful — self-assertive and aggressive; pushing.
- pushing — that pushes.
- pushkin — Alexander Sergeevich [al-ig-zan-der sur-gey-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr syir-gye-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1799–1837, Russian poet, short-story writer, and dramatist.
- pushout — throwaway (def 5).
- pushpin — a short pin having a spool-shaped head of plastic, glass, or metal, used for affixing material to a bulletin board, wall, or the like.
- pushpit — a safety rail at the stern of a boat
- pushrod — a rod in an overhead-valve engine that is part of the linkage used to open and close the valves.
- pushtos — Pashto.
- puslike — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- pussies — Informal. a cat, especially a kitten.
- pussley — purslane
- pussy's — Informal. a cat, especially a kitten.
- pustule — Pathology. a small elevation of the skin containing pus.
- puttees — a long strip of cloth wound spirally round the leg from ankle to knee, worn especially formerly as part of a soldier's uniform.
- pyjamas — night clothes consisting of loose-fitting trousers and jacket.
- pylades — a son of Strophius who befriended Orestes, accompanied him in his wanderings, and eventually married Electra, sister of Orestes.
- pylorus — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pyrites — pyrite.
- pyrosis — heartburn (def 1).
- pyrrhus — c318–272 b.c, king of Epirus c300–272.
- pytheas — 4th century bc, Greek navigator. He was the first Greek to visit and describe the coasts of Spain, France, and the British Isles and may have reached Iceland
- pythias — the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracles.
- 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.
- pyxides — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a box of a usually cylindrical shape having a lid with a knob in the center, used for toilet articles.
- ralph's — a male given name: from Old Norse words meaning “counsel” and “wolf.”.
- rappist — Harmonist.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- recepts — an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
- reflisp — (language) A small Lisp interpreter written in C++ by Bill Birch of Bull, UK. RefLisp has a built-in web server, Wiki, LISP server pages, SQL Databases, XML parser, MD5 hashing, regular expressions, reference counting and mark-sweep garbage collection. RefLisp has shallow-binding and dynamic scope with optional support for lexical scope, Common Lisp compatibility and for indefinite extent Scheme programs. RefLisp is distributed under the GPL.
- relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
- rephase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- replies — to make answer in words or writing; answer; respond: to reply to a question.
- reposal — the act of reposing.
- reposed — the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- reposes — the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- reposit — to put back; replace.
- repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- reprise — Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.