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7-letter words containing sp

  • isospin — isotopic spin.
  • ispahan — Isfahan.
  • jaspers — a city in NW Alabama.
  • jaspery — containing or composed of jasper.
  • le-lisp — Jerome Chailloux and Emmanuel St James, INRIA, France. A LISP dialect close to Common Lisp, lexically scoped, with a CLOS-like object system. Uses both packages and modules. "le-lisp: A Portable and Efficient Lisp System", J. Chailloux et al, Proc 1984 ACM Symp on Lisp and Functional Programming, ACM. Version v.16, available from ILOG, France.
  • legaspi — a seaport on SE Luzon, in the Philippines.
  • lisping — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
  • lispkit — (language)   A functional programming language designed by Peter Henderson with Lisp syntax. Designed for portability. The Lispkit implementation is an extension to Landin's SECD machine that supports lazy evaluation. See also Stack environment control dump machine.
  • loglisp — A version of Prolog implemented by Robinson in Lisp which allows Prolog programs to call Lisp and vice versa.
  • maclisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
  • maspero — Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
  • mispage — page wrongly
  • mispaid — Simple past tense and past participle of mispay.
  • mispart — to part wrongly
  • mispell — Misspelling of misspell.
  • mispelt — Misspelling of misspelt.
  • mispick — a pick or filling yarn that has failed to interlace with the warp as a result of a mechanical defect in the loom.
  • misplan — (transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
  • misplay — a wrong or bad play.
  • muspike — a N American freshwater fish developed by cross-breeding muskellunge and pike
  • myspace — (Internet) One's profile on the MySpace website.
  • notspot — (networking, humour)   In contrast with wireless hotspot, a place where there is no means to connect to the Internet. While the term "hotspot" refers to a wireless local area network, "notspot" might also mean a place without decent DSL (broadband Internet) connection.
  • 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.
  • on spec — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
  • oosperm — a fertilized ovum; zygote
  • oospore — a fertilized egg within an oogonium.
  • ospreys — Plural form of osprey.
  • outspan — to unyoke or unhitch, as oxen from a wagon.
  • outsped — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
  • pailisp — (language)   A parallel Lisp built on Scheme in 1986.
  • perspex — acrylic material: artificial glass
  • phosph- — phospho-
  • pisspot — a chamber pot.
  • prosper — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
  • rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
  • reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
  • reflisp — (language)   A small Lisp interpreter written in C++ by Bill Birch of Bull, UK. RefLisp has a built-in web server, Wiki, LISP server pages, SQL Databases, XML parser, MD5 hashing, regular expressions, reference counting and mark-sweep garbage collection. RefLisp has shallow-binding and dynamic scope with optional support for lexical scope, Common Lisp compatibility and for indefinite extent Scheme programs. RefLisp is distributed under the GPL.
  • respace — to change the spacing of
  • respade — to dig over; dig up or work (ground etc) with a spade again
  • respawn — (of a character or item in a video game) to reenter an existing game environment at a fixed point after having been defeated or otherwise removed from play: If another player character has already opened the treasure chest, you will have to wait a few minutes for the chest to respawn.
  • respeak — to speak or say (something) again
  • respect — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.
  • respell — to spell again or anew.
  • respice — any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
  • respire — to inhale and exhale air for the purpose of maintaining life; breathe.
  • respite — a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief: to toil without respite.
  • resplit — to split again
  • respond — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
  • respool — to rewind onto a spool
  • respray — coat again with spray paint
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