7-letter words containing u, s, p
- spudder — a person who prepares and operates a rig for drilling oil wells.
- spuddle — a feeble movement
- spulyie — to plunder
- spumone — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- spumoni — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- spumous — to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).
- spunkie — a will-o'-the-wisp.
- spur on — encourage
- spuriae — the feathers on the bastard wing of a bird
- spurned — to reject with disdain; scorn.
- spurred — having a spur or spurs.
- spurrey — spurry.
- spurter — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spurtle — a stick used to stir porridge.
- spurway — a path used by horse riders
- sputnik — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.
- sputter — to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.
- spy out — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- stackup — stack (def 13).
- startup — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- stay up — not go to bed
- step up — effecting an increase.
- step-up — effecting an increase.
- stickup — a holdup; robbery.
- stipule — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- stirrup — a loop, ring, or other contrivance of metal, wood, leather, etc., suspended from the saddle of a horse to support the rider's foot.
- stop up — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- 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.
- 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.
- suck up — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- suiplap — a drunkard
- suit up — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sulphur — a city in SW Louisiana.
- sumpter — a packhorse or mule.
- sun pan — a vat for drying slip, sometimes artificially heated.
- sunlamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
- 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
- super 7 — (hardware, standard) An upgrade to Socket 7 to support AGP and a 100 MHz system bus,, supported by non-Intel processor and motherboard manufacturers such as AMD and Cyrix. Due to faster access to L2 cache and memory, Super 7 gives a 10% performance boost over Socket 7 motherboards for the same processor. Super 7 motherboards should support all Socket 7 processors.
- super-g — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- suppawn — cornmeal mush.
- suppler — bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible: a supple bough.
- supplex — a type of synthetic fabric which is breathable, stretchable, and fast-drying, used esp for sportswear