7-letter words containing s, t, p, e
- outstep — Exceed.
- paestum — an ancient coastal city of Lucania, in S Italy: the extant ruins include three Greek temples and a Roman amphitheater.
- pantest — of or relating to pants: pant cuffs.
- panties — panties.
- parties — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- pastern — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasties — of or like paste in consistency, texture, color, etc.
- pastime — something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport: to play cards as a pastime.
- pastose — having a heavy impasto.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- patness — the characteristic of being pat; appropriateness; aptness
- pattens — any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- pattles — paddle1 (def 11).
- pe-tsai — Chinese cabbage.
- peanuts — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- peasant — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- pectase — an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- pectose — protopectin.
- pectous — of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peltast — (in ancient Greece) a lightly armed foot soldier
- pelters — strong criticism or verbal abuse
- penates — the household gods of the ancient Romans
- penster — a writer, esp of trivial things
- pentose — a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 1 0 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- peritus — a Catholic theological expert and consultant who gives advice at an ecumenical council of the church
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- persant — sharp or stabbing
- persist — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- pertest — boldly forward in speech or behavior; impertinent; saucy.
- pertuse — punctured or perforated
- pesante — in a forceful or weighty manner
- peshito — the standard translation of the Old and New Testaments in ancient Syriac
- 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
- 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.
- pieties — You refer to statements about what is morally right as pieties when you think they are insincere or unrealistic.
- pietism — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- pietist — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pinsent — Sir Matthew (Clive). born 1970, British oarsman; won four gold medals in rowing events at consecutive Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004)
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- piteous — evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- pitesti — a city in S central Romania, on the Argeş River.
- plashet — a small, marshy pond