7-letter words containing s, t, p
- exposit — To expound.
- eyespot — A light-sensitive pigmented spot on the bodies of invertebrate animals such as flatworms, starfishes, and microscopic crustaceans, and also in some unicellular organisms.
- finspot — any clinid fish of the genus Paraclinus, having an eyelike spot on the dorsal fin, as P. integripinnis, of California.
- flypast — flyby (def 2a).
- fusspot — a fussbudget.
- gas tap — a valve for controlling the release of gas
- gestapo — the German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations.
- gnustep — (operating system) A GNU implementation of OpenStep. Work has started on an implementation using an existing library written in Objective-C. Much work remains to be done to bring this library close to the OpenStep specifications. Adam Fedor is head of the project.
- gosport — a flexible speaking tube for communication between separate cockpits or compartments of an aircraft.
- gypster — gyp1 (def 3).
- haptens — Plural form of hapten.
- haptics — Usually, haptics. Digital Technology. a vibration or other tactile sensation received from a computer or electronic device: You can save power by adjusting the haptics and brightness of your phone. an input or output device that senses the body's movements by means of physical contact with the user: joysticks and other haptics.
- harpist — a person who plays the harp, especially professionally.
- hatpins — Plural form of hatpin.
- hautpas — A raised part of the floor of a large room; a dais or platform for a raised table or throne.
- hepcats — Plural form of hepcat.
- heptads — Plural form of heptad.
- heptose — any monosaccharide containing seven carbon atoms.
- hippest — Also, hipness. the condition or state of being hip.
- hipshot — having the hip dislocated.
- hipster — hipsters, Chiefly British. hiphuggers (def 2).
- hotpots — Plural form of hotpot.
- hotspot — a country or region where dangerous or difficult political situations exist or may erupt, especially where a war, revolution, or a belligerent attitude toward other countries exists or may develop: In the 1960s, Vietnam became a hot spot.
- hotspur — Sir Henry ("Hotspur") 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.
- iapetus — Classical Mythology. a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea.
- impacts — Plural form of impact.
- imparts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impart.
- impaste — to cover with or enclose in a paste.
- impasto — the laying on of paint thickly.
- impetus — a moving force; impulse; stimulus: The grant for building the opera house gave impetus to the city's cultural life.
- imports — Plural form of import.
- imposts — Plural form of impost.
- imprest — impressment.
- imputes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impute.
- in step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- inkspot — an ink stain; spot of ink
- inspect — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- insteps — Plural form of instep.
- inswept — tapering or narrowing at the front or tip, as an airplane wing.
- iphitus — a son of Eurytus, thrown to his death off the walls of Tiryns by Hercules.
- ipseity — Selfhood; individual identity.
- isotope — any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.
- isotopy — the quality or condition of being isotopic; isotopic character.
- isotype — a drawing, diagram, or other symbol that represents a specific quantity of or other fact about the thing depicted: Every isotype of a house on that chart represents a thousand new houses.
- jimpest — Superlative form of jimp.
- kapitsa — Pyotr L(eonidovich) [pyawtr lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /pyɔtr lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1978.
- keepest — Second-person singular present active indicative of keep.
- klephts — Plural form of klepht.
- lampost — Alternative spelling of lamppost.
- lappets — Plural form of lappet.