7-letter words containing sa
- excusal — the act of excusing
- exposal — (archaic) exposure.
- fissate — split, divided, with fissures
- flotsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
- focsani — a town in E central Romania.
- foresaw — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- foresay — (transitive) To say beforehand; predict; foretell.
- formosa — Taiwan.
- forsaid — Simple past tense and past participle of forsay.
- forsake — to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.
- fossate — having cavities or depressions
- fretsaw — A saw with a narrow blade stretched vertically on a frame, for cutting thin wood in patterns.
- fusains — Plural form of fusain.
- gainsay — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
- gisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- glossae — Plural form of glossa.
- glossal — of or relating to the tongue.
- guayusa — a tree, Ilex guayusa , native to the rainforest in the upper Amazon river basin.
- guisard — a person who wears a mask; mummer.
- hacksaw — a saw for cutting metal, consisting typically of a narrow, fine-toothed blade fixed in a frame.
- handsaw — any common saw with a handle at one end for manual operation with one hand.
- hansard — the official verbatim published reports of the debates and proceedings in the British Parliament.
- harissa — a pungent paste or sauce made with chilies, garlic, cumin, caraway, coriander, paprika, and olive oil, used as a condiment and flavoring in North African and Middle Eastern cookery.
- hasanlu — an archaeological site in NW Iran, S of Lake Urmia: excavated Mannaean city.
- headsaw — a saw that cuts and trims logs as they enter a mill.
- hearsay — unverified, unofficial information gained or acquired from another and not part of one's direct knowledge: I pay no attention to hearsay.
- heresay — Misspelling of hearsay.
- herisau — a demicanton in NE Switzerland: Protestant. 94 sq. mi. (245 sq. km). Capital: Herisau.
- hersall — a rehearsal
- hexosan — any of a group of hemicelluloses that hydrolyze to hexoses.
- hidatsa — a member of a Siouan people dwelling on the Missouri River.
- hokusai — Katsushika [kah-tsoo-shee-kah] /ˈkɑ tsʊˈʃi kɑ/ (Show IPA), 1760–1849, Japanese painter and illustrator.
- hopsack — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hosanna — a cry of “hosanna.”.
- houssay — Bernardo Alberto [ber-nahr-th aw ahl-ver-taw] /bɛrˈnɑr ðɔ ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Argentine physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- hussain — Nasser (ˈnæsə). born 1968, British cricketer born in India; played in 96 test matches for England (1990–2004), 56 as captain
- hussars — Plural form of hussar.
- impresa — a device or emblem.
- in sail — having the sail set
- incisal — Relating to an incisor, or to the cutting edge of another tooth.
- ink sac — a large gland in most cephalopods, as the cuttlefish, octopus, and squid, that is near the rectum and ejects ink at predators.
- insaner — not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
- insanie — insanity
- irisate — to make iridescent
- isa bus — Industry Standard Architecture
- isabela — a city in NW Puerto Rico.
- isadora — a female given name: derived from Isidor.
- isadore — a male given name: from the Greek word meaning “gift of Isis.”.
- isagoge — an introduction, especially a scholarly introduction to a field of study or research.
- isauria — an ancient district of S central Asia Minor, chiefly on the N slopes of the W Taurus Mountains