7-letter words containing a, l, s, t
- maltese — of or relating to Malta, its people, or their language.
- malthus — Thomas Robert, 1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
- maltose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- mantels — Plural form of mantel.
- mantles — Plural form of mantle.
- mastful — (of a tree) yielding mast in abundance
- matless — Without a mat.
- mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- mortals — Plural form of mortal.
- muletas — Plural form of muleta.
- mutuals — Plural form of mutual.
- nailset — a punch for driving the head of a nail below or flush with the surrounding surface
- nastily — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- oastler — Richard. 1789–1861, British social reformer; he campaigned against child labour and helped achieve the ten-hour day (1847)
- oblasti — (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- oblasts — Plural form of oblast.
- oblates — Plural form of oblate.
- oleates — Plural form of oleate.
- olestra — a synthetic oil used as a substitute for dietary fat: not digested or absorbed by the human body.
- ooblast — a primordial cell from which the ovum is developed.
- oralist — an advocate of oralism.
- ostwald — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1853–1932, German chemist: Nobel prize 1909.
- outlash — a sudden attack
- outlast — to endure or last longer than: The pyramids outlasted the civilization that built them.
- outlaws — Plural form of outlaw.
- outlays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outlay.
- outsail — to outdo in sailing; sail farther, more skillfully, or faster than.
- oxysalt — any salt of an oxyacid.
- pattles — paddle1 (def 11).
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paylist — a list of people to be paid
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peltast — (in ancient Greece) a lightly armed foot soldier
- 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.
- 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.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- plashet — a small, marshy pond
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- plastid — a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.
- plautus — Titus Maccius [tahy-tuh s mak-see-uh s] /ˈtaɪ təs ˈmæk si əs/ (Show IPA), c254–c184 b.c, Roman dramatist.
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
- pulsant — pulsating; vibrant
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- realist — a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- reslate — to slate (a roof etc) again
- rostral — of or relating to a rostrum.
- saintlo — a department in NW France. 2476 sq. mi. (6413 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Lô.
- saintly — pertaining to, like, or befitting a saint: saintly lives.