7-letter words containing s, t, p
- strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
- stroppy — bad-tempered or hostile; quick to take offense.
- stumped — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stumper — a person or thing that stumps.
- stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupent — astonished
- stupids — Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of "Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary geniuses.
- stylops — any insect of the order Strepsiptera, including the genus Stylops, living as a parasite in other insects, esp bees and wasps: the females remain in the body of the host but the males move between hosts
- stypsis — the employment or application of styptics.
- styptic — serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
- subpart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- subplot — a secondary or subordinate plot, as in a play, novel, or other literary work; underplot. Compare counterplot (def 2).
- subtype — a subordinate type.
- suit up — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sumpter — a packhorse or mule.
- sunspot — one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena.
- suntrap — sunny enclosed area
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- symptom — any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
- synapte — a litany.
- syntype — a type specimen other than the holotype used in the description of a species.
- t-strap — a strap on the upper of a shoe that extends backward from the vamp and joins with a strap that crosses the upper part of the instep, forming a T .
- talipes — a clubfoot.
- tapajos — a river flowing NE through central Brazil to the Amazon. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- taplash — the dregs of beer or liquor; stale beer
- tapsman — a barman
- tapster — a bartender.
- tapstry — a tap-room in a public house
- teacups — a cup in which tea is served, usually of small or moderate size.
- teashop — a tearoom.
- tempest — a comedy (1611) by Shakespeare.
- tenpins — (used with a singular verb) a form of bowling, played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.
- thapsus — an ancient town on the coast of Tunisia: decisive victory of Caesar 46 b.c.
- thespis — flourished 6th century b.c, Greek poet.
- tipsify — to make tipsy
- tipster — a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- topless — lacking a top: a topless bathing suit.
- topmast — the mast next above a lower mast, usually formed as a separate spar from the lower mast and used to support the yards or rigging of a topsail or topsails.
- topmost — highest; uppermost.
- topples — to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
- tops-10 — /tops-ten/ DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favourite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore. See also ITS, TOPS-20, TWENEX, VMS, operating system. TOPS-10 was sometimes called BOTS-10 (from "bottoms-ten") as a comment on the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.
- tops-20 — TWENEX
- topsail — a sail, or either of a pair of sails, set immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast.
- topside — the upper side.
- topsman — a chief drover of herding cattle
- topsoil — the fertile, upper part of the soil.
- topspin — a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate forward.
- torpids — a series of boat races held at Oxford University
- toss up — to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.