7-letter words containing s, p
- slip-on — made without buttons, straps, zippers, etc., so as to be put on easily and quickly: a slip-on blouse; slip-on shoes.
- slip-up — a mistake, blunder, or oversight: Several slip-ups caused a delay in the delivery of the books.
- sliping — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- slipout — an instance of slipping out
- slipped — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slipper — any light, low-cut shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, for casual wear in the home, for dancing, etc. Compare bedroom slipper, house slipper.
- slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
- sloping — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- slopped — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slow up — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- slow-up — a delay or retardation in progress or activity; slowdown.
- slumped — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slurper — a person who slurps his or her food or drink
- smashup — vehicle collision
- snap at — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- snap to — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- snap up — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- snap-in — designed to be attached or held by snapping into position by snaps.
- snap-on — attached or fitting into place by means of a snap or with a pressing motion: snap-on bottle tops.
- snapped — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- snapper — any of several large marine food fishes of the family Lutjanidae.
- snaptin — a container for food
- sniping — the action of attacking a person or persons with a rifle from a place of concealment
- snipped — to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
- snipper — a hairdresser
- snippet — a small piece snipped off; a small bit, scrap, or fragment: an anthology of snippets.
- snooped — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- snooper — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
- soak up — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- soapbox — Also, soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.
- soliped — solidungulate.
- sonship — the state, fact, or relation of being a son.
- sophies — a female given name.
- sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
- sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- sopping — soaked; drenched: Her clothes were sopping from the rain.
- soprano — the uppermost part or voice.
- sopwith — Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch. 1888–1989, British aircraft designer, who built the Sopwith Camel biplane used during World War I. He was chairman (1935–63) of the Hawker Siddeley Group, which developed the Hurricane fighter
- soup up — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- soupcon — a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
- soupfin — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- soursop — the large, dark-green, slightly acid, pulpy fruit of a small West Indian tree, Annona muricata, of the annona family.
- sp. gr. — specific gravity
- spacial — of or relating to space.
- spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
- spacing — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spackle — a hole-filling compound
- spadger — a sparrow
- spading — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.