7-letter words containing a, p, o, s
- gaposis — a noticeable gap or series of gaps, as between the fastened buttons or snaps on an overly tight garment.
- gestapo — the German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations.
- gosplan — the official planning organization, which drew up projects embracing trade and industry, agriculture, education, and public health.
- hispano — Hispanic
- hopsack — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- impasto — the laying on of paint thickly.
- isopach — a line drawn on a map connecting all points of equal thickness of a particular geologic formation.
- joypads — Plural form of joypad.
- kakapos — Plural form of kakapo.
- kalypso — Calypso (def 1).
- lagopus — (obsolete) The ptarmigan (which bird was so called because its feet resemble those of a hare).
- lampost — Alternative spelling of lamppost.
- lapdogs — Plural form of lapdog.
- laptops — Plural form of laptop.
- lipomas — Plural form of lipoma.
- maspero — Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- maypops — Plural form of maypop.
- mobcaps — Plural form of mobcap.
- natsopa — National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel
- no soap — a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- nonpast — a tense that is not the past tense, a non-past tense
- nopales — (plurale tantum) The leaves of a prickly pear cactus, as used in Mexican cooking.
- oaklisp — (language) A portable object-oriented Scheme by K. Lang and Barak Perlmutter of Yale. Oaklisp uses a superset of Scheme syntax. It is based on generic operations rather than functions, and features anonymous classes, multiple inheritance, a strong error system, setters and locators for operations and a facility for dynamic binding. Version 1.2 includes an interface, bytecode compiler, run-time system and documentation.
- octapus — Misspelling of octopus.
- ooplasm — The cytoplasm of an egg or ovum.
- opaques — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opaque.
- opiates — Plural form of opiate.
- opposal — (archaic) opposition.
- oropesa — a float used in minesweeping
- orphans — Plural form of orphan.
- outpass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- outspan — to unyoke or unhitch, as oxen from a wagon.
- paesano — an Italian-American man
- paisano — paisan.
- palouse — a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- panhoss — pannhas.
- pannose — having the texture of felt or woolen cloth.
- paoshan — a town in W Yunnan province, in S China, on the Burma Road.
- papoose — a North American Indian baby or young child.
- pappose — having or forming a pappus.
- pappous — having or forming a pappus.
- parados — a bank of earth built behind a trench or military emplacement to protect soldiers from a surprise attack from the rear.
- parasol — a lightweight umbrella used, especially by women, as a sunshade.
- parison — a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- parlous — perilous; dangerous.
- parodos — (in ancient Greek drama) an ode sung by the chorus at their entrance, usually beginning the play and preceding the proagōn in comedy or the alteration of epeisodia and stasima in tragedy.
- parotis — a parotid gland
- parsons — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- pasmore — Victor. 1908–98, British artist. Originally a figurative painter, he devoted himself to abstract paintings and reliefs after 1947
- pass on — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.