7-Letter Words Starting with S: page 3

All 1,304 seven-letter words that start with S: page 3 of 4

SP

• spanker13n. Someone who spanks.
• spanner9n. A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.
• sparely12adv. In a spare manner; sparsely or frugally.
• sparing10adj. Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or...
• sparked14adj. That has had sparks (of electricity) passed through it.
• sparker13n. One who or that which sparks or initiates.
• sparkle13n. A little spark; a scintillation.
• sparkly16adj. Giving off sparks, or small flashes of light; glittery.
• sparrow12n. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill...
• spartan9adj. Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.
• spasibo11interj. Thank you.
• spastic11adj. Of, relating to, or affected by spasm.
• spatial9adj. Pertaining to (the dimension of) space.
• spatter9v. To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
• spatula9n. A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long...
• spawner12n. A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically...
• spaying13n. The act or operation of neutering an animal; normally used in reference...
• speaker13n. One who speaks.
• speared10adj. Wielding a spear.
• special11adj. Distinguished by a unique, particular, or unusual quality.
• species11n. A type or kind. (Compare race.).
• specify17v. To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
• specked16adj. Having specks or spots, speckled.
• specker15n. A person who practices specking, walking around scanning the ground for...
• speckle15n. A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.
• specter11n. A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
• spectre11n. UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.
• speeded11adj. Measured in terms of speed.
• speeder10n. One who speeds: one who exceeds the maximum legal speed limit.
• speedos10n. A men′s tight fitting brief swimsuit.
• speedup12n. An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of...
• speight13n. A woodpecker.
• speller9n. A person who spells.
• spelter9n. Zinc, often in blocks or ingot form.
• spencer11n. A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th...
• spender10n. A person who spends money.
• spewing13n. Material spewed or vomited.
• spheric14adj. Spherical.
• spicule11n. A sharp, needle-like piece.
• spidery13adj. Like a spider.
• spieler9n. A swindler, a gambler.
• spiffed16adj. Intoxicated.
• spiking14adj. Spiky.
• spiller9n. One who spills.
• spinach14n. A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
• spindel10n. Certain species of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used...
• spindle10n. A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool)...
• spindly13adj. Characteristic of a spindle; slender and of weak appearance.
• spinner9n. Someone who or something that spins.
• spinney12n. A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game...
• spinose9adj. Having a spine, or spines.
• spinous9adj. Having many spines.
• spinout9n. A skid that results in a vehicle rotating such that its longitudinal...
• spirant9n. A non-sibilant fricative.
• spirits9n. Distilled alcoholic beverages.
• spittal9n. Lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a...
• spitted10adj. Shot out long; said of antlers.
• spitter9n. One who puts meat on a spit.
• spittle9n. Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration.
• spitzer18n. A pointed bullet.
• splashy15adj. Relating to making splashes or the sound of splashing.
• splayed13adj. Of a door or a window: bevelled so as to be larger on one side of the...
• splenic11adj. Of, related to, or located near the spleen.
• splicer11n. A person or device that makes a splice.
• splined10adj. Having a spline or splines.
• splints9n. An equine ailment.
• splodge11n. An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.
• splooge10n. Semen.
• sploosh12n. A heavy splashing sound.
• splotch14n. An irregular-shaped spot or stain.
• splurge10v. To (cause to) gush; to flow or move in a rush.
• spoiled10adj. That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
• spoiler9n. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
• spondee10n. A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both...
• sponger10n. One who uses a sponge.
• sponsee9n. One who is sponsored.
• sponson9n. A projection from the side of an aircraft, watercraft, or land vehicle.
• sponsor9n. A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another...
• spoofed13adj. Parodied.
• spoofer12n. Someone who spoofs.
• spooked14adj. A little scared; worried by a feeling or event. Describing the...
• spooler9n. A device or person that winds thread onto a spool.
• spooner9n. A person who engages in kissing and petting.
• spoonie9n. A northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata, formerly Anas clypeata).
• sporran9n. A small pouch, usually made of either fur or plain or fur-trimmed...
• sporter9n. Someone who sports something.
• sportif12n. Synonym of cyclosportive.
• spotted10adj. Discoloured by spots; stained.
• spotter9n. A person who observes something.
• spousal9adj. Of or relating to marriage.
• spouted10adj. Having a spout.
• sprayed13adj. Chapped with cold.
• sprayer12n. Synonym of spray bottle.
• springe10v. To catch in a springe; to ensnare.
• springy13adj. That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after...
• sprints9n. Synonym of tubulars.
• sproing10interj. The sound of a sudden springing or leaping.
• spumoni11n. An Italian style of ice cream dessert made with layers of different...
• spurred10adj. Wearing spurs.
• sputnik13n. Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the...
• sputter9n. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.

SQ

• squadra17n. A Fascist military cadre.
• squalid17adj. Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
• squally19adj. Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.
• squalor16n. Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty.
• squared17adj. Covered with a grid of squares.
• squarer16n. One who, or that which, squares.
• squashy22adj. Easily squashed when pressed.
• squatch21n. Sasquatch.
• squatty19adj. Somewhat squat.
• squeaky23adj. Tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak.
• squeeze25v. To apply pressure (to something) from two or more sides at once.
• squeezy28adj. Flexible and easy to squeeze.
• squelch21v. To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by...
• squiddy21adj. Resembling or characteristic of a squid.
• squidge18v. To squash, most often between one's fingers.
• squidgy21adj. Moist and pliant; soggy.
• squiffy25adj. Slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy.
• squilla16n. A dinner bell, (historical) a shrill little bell used to signal dinner...
• squinch21n. A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the...
• squinty19adj. Afflicted with a squint.
• squirmy21adj. That squirms, writhes or wriggles.
• squirty19adj. That operates by squirting.
• squishy22adj. Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.

ST

• stabber11n. One who, or that which, stabs.
• stabile9n. Abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc.
• stabled10adj. Kept or located in a stable.
• stabler9n. A stablekeeper.
• stacked14adj. Arranged in a stack.
• stacker13n. Any person or thing that stacks.
• stadial8adj. Pertaining to a glacial stade.
• stadion8n. A Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to...
• stadium10n. A venue where sporting events are held.
• staffed14adj. Occupied by staff, having members of staff.
• staffer13n. A member of a staff; an employee.
• stagger9n. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were...
• staging9n. A performance of a play.
• stained8adj. Having a stain.
• stainer7n. Something that stains.
• staithe10n. An installation built at the railside or nearby for the storage of coal...
• staking12n. An act of stabbing with a stake.
• stalder8n. A wooden frame to set casks on.
• staling8n. The process whereby bread goes stale.
• stalked12adj. Having a stalk or stem.
• stalker11n. A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to...
• staller7n. One who stalls.
• stamina9n. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long...
• stammer11v. To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
• stamper11n. One who stamps.
• standby13n. A state of readiness without immediate involvement; remaining in...
• standee8n. Somebody who is forced to stand up, for example, on a crowded bus.
• stander8n. One who stands.
• staniel7n. The kestrel or windhover.
• stanner7n. * see: stanners.
• stannum9n. Tin.
• stapled10adj. Fastened with staples.
• stapler9n. A device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal...
• starboy12n. A young male celebrity.
• starchy15adj. Of or pertaining to starch.
• stardom10n. The status or position of a performer acknowledged to be a star; fame...
• staring8n. The act of one who stares.
• starkly14adv. In a stark manner; with great contrast.
• starlet7n. A young actress with a promising career ahead of her.
• starlit7adj. Illuminated by starlight.
• starman9n. A spaceman.
• starred8adj. Having a star or stars.
• starrer7n. A film featuring a particular movie star.
• starset7n. The time of day or night when a given star disappears below the horizon.
• starter7n. Someone who starts, or who starts something.
• startle7v. To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
• startup9n. The act or process of starting a process or machine.
• starved11adj. Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
• stately10adj. Worthy of respect; dignified, regal.
• statice9n. Plants of the genus Limonium having spikes of white or mauve flowers.
• statics9n. The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in static equilibrium.
• stating8n. Statement.
• station7n. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
• statism9n. Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political...
• statist7n. A supporter of statism.
• stative10adj. Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a...
• statues7n. A children's game in which the players have to stand still without...
• stature7n. A person or animal's natural height when standing upright.
• statute7n. A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body.
• staunch12adj. Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate...
• staving11n. A casing or lining of staves, especially one encircling a water wheel.
• staying11n. A stay or visit.
• stealer7n. One who steals; a thief.
• stealth10n. The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way...
• steamed10adj. Heated and processed by steam, such as being cooked by steaming.
• steamer9n. A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in...
• stearic9adj. Of or relating to stearin, tallow etc.
• stearin7n. Solid fat.
• stearyl10n. The univalent radical CH₃(CH₂)₁₇- derived from stearyl alcohol.
• steeler7n. One who points, edges, plates or covers with steel.
• steelie7n. A zinc-coated steel one-cent (penny) coin, produced during World War II...
• steepen9v. To make steeper.
• steeper9n. A vessel, vat, or cistern in which things are steeped.
• steeple9n. A tall tower, often on a church, normally topped with a spire.
• steeply12adv. In a steep manner.
• steerer7n. Someone or something that steers.
• stellar7adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
• steller7n. Steller's sea cow, an extinct sirenian.
• stemmed12adj. Having a stem.
• stemmer11n. Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
• stempel11n. A shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as...
• stencil9n. A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with...
• stentor7n. A person with a powerful or stentorian voice.
• stepbro11n. A stepbrother.
• stepdad11n. A stepfather.
• stepmom13n. Stepmother.
• stepmum13n. Stepmother.
• stepney12n. A spare wheel.
• stepped12adj. Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts...
• stepper11n. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
• stepson9n. The son of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
• sterile7adj. Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
• sternal7adj. Of, relating to, or near the sternum.
• sternly10adv. In a stern manner.
• sternum9n. The breastbone, consisting of the manubrium, gladiolus, and xiphoid...
• steroid8n. A class of organic compounds having a structure of seventeen carbon...
• steward11n. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
• stewing11n. The act by which something is stewed.
• stewpot12n. A pot used for making stew, usually large and heavy.
• sticker13n. Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
• stickle13n. A sharp point; prickle; a spine.
• stickly16adj. Prickly; spiny.
• stickum15n. Any adhesive, adhesive residue; any sticky or gummy substance.
• stickup15n. A robbery at gunpoint.
• stiffen13v. To make stiff.
• stiffly16adv. With stiffness; lacking a smooth flow of movement, or lacking movement...
• stifled11adj. That has been interrupted, suppressed etc.
• stifler10n. One who, or that which, stifles; one who represses or limits.
• stilled8adj. Brought to a standstill.
• stiller7n. One who stills, or quiets.
• stilted8adj. Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling...
• stinger8n. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
• stinker11n. One who stinks.
• stinted8adj. Constrained; restrained; confined.
• stipend10n. Some other form of fixed (and generally small) payment occurring at...
• stipple11n. The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots...
• stirrer7n. A device used to stir. (Cardinal types include wood or plastic strips...
• stirrup9n. A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a...
• stocked14adj. Having been replenished with stock.
• stocker13n. Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often...
• stoical9adj. Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
• stoking12n. The act by which something is stoked.
• stollen7n. A traditional German cake eaten at Christmas time, made with nuts...
• stomach14n. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
• stomper11n. One who stomps.
• stonily10adv. In a stony manner.
• stoning8n. Lapidation: punishment by throwing stones, usually resulting in death.
• stoolie7n. A stool pigeon.
• stooped10adj. In a bent bodily position, hunched.
• stopgap12n. Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled...
• stoping10n. The removal of the desired ore from an underground mine, leaving behind...
• stopped12adj. Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the...
• stopper11n. Someone or something that stops something.
• storage8n. The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
• storied8adj. Much discussed or written about.
• storify13v. To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
• storing8n. An amount stored.
• stormer9n. Someone who storms.
• stoutly10adv. In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately.
• stowage11n. The act or practice of stowing.
• stowing11n. A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed...
• strange8adj. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a...
• strappy14adj. Of or characterized by straps.
• stratum9n. One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on...
• stratus7n. A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a...
• strayed11adj. Having lost one's way; wandering; astray.
• strayer10n. One who strays.
• streaky14adj. Having streaks.
• streamy12adj. Resembling a stream; streamlike.
• stressy10adj. Stressful.
• stretch12v. To lengthen by pulling.
• stretto7n. The presence of two close or overlapping statements of the subject of a...
• strewth13interj. A mild oath expressing surprise or generally adding emphasis.
• striate7v. To mark something with striations.
• strider8n. One who strides.
• strides8n. Trousers.
• stridor8n. A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.
• strigoi8n. In Balkan folklore, the troubled souls of the dead rising from the...
• striker11n. A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
• strings8n. Collectively, the stringed instruments in an orchestra.
• stringy11adj. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
• striped10adj. Having stripes, decorated or marked with bands differing in color.
• striper9n. A device that applies stripes.
• stripey12n. A marine fish found from Australia to Hawaii and Japan, Microcanthus...
• stritch12n. Nickname for a type of saxophone.
• striver10n. One who strives.
• stroked12adj. Having a replacement crankshaft with a longer stroke than normal.
• stroker11n. One who strokes.
• stromal9adj. Of or relating to a stroma.
• strophe12n. A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side...
• stroppy14adj. Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to...
• strudel8n. A pastry made from multiple thin layers of dough rolled up and filled...
• stubbed12adj. Short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
• stubble11n. Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
• stubbly14adj. Having stubble.
• studded10adj. Having studs.
• student8n. A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
• studied9adj. Practiced; self-conscious; careful; not spontaneous.
• studier8n. One who studies.
• studies8n. An academic field of study concerning the given subject.
• stuffed14adj. Full or packed (with some material or substance).
• stuffer13n. One who, or that which, stuffs.
• stuffie13n. A stuffed clam, typically quahog.
• stuiver10n. Stiver.
• stumble11n. A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
• stumped12adj. Perplexed, confused.
• stumper11n. One who stumps, or speaks, or orates, as a politician.
• stunned8adj. Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.
• stunner7n. Anything that is stunning.
• stunted8adj. Prevented from growing or developing fully and hence shorter and...
• stupefy15v. To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing...
• stupids10n. Stupidity; an instance of foolishness.
• stutter7v. To speak (words) with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
• stygian11adj. Infernal or hellish.
• styling11n. Any form of decoration or stylistic approach.
• stylish13adj. Having style.
• stylist10n. A designer.
• stylize19v. To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
• styloid11adj. Resembling a stylus or pen.
• styptic14adj. Bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.
• styrene10n. An aromatic hydrocarbon; a colourless, oily liquid, used in the...

SU

• suasion7n. The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
• suavely13adv. In a suave manner.
• suavity13n. The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness...
• subacid12adj. Somewhat acidic.
• subadar10n. The governor or commander in charge of a subah; a viceroy.
• subarea9n. A physical region that makes up part of an area.
• subband12n. A subdivision of a band (especially one of frequencies).
• subbase11n. The lowest projecting part of a baseboard, a pedestal or a similar...
• subbing12n. A copy editing process.
• subcamp15n. A camp (such as a labour camp or concentration camp) that makes up part...
• subdued11adj. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive.
• subgame12n. A subset of a game that can be considered a game in its own right.
• subhead13n. A subheading or subtitle.
• subject18adj. Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
• sublime11v. To heat (a substance) in a container so as to convert it into a gas...
• subline9n. A subset of a line (of cells in a strain).
• sublist9n. A list that makes up part of a larger list.
• submenu11n. A secondary menu available through another menu, especially one that...
• subpart11n. Part of a part.
• subplot11n. A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot.
• subrace11n. A secondary or subsidiary race.
• subring10n. A ring which is contained in a larger ring, such that the...
• subsect11n. A secondary or subsidiary sect.
• subside10v. To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
• subsidy13n. Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
• subsist9v. To survive on a minimum of resources.
• subsoil9n. The layer of earth that is below the topsoil.
• subsume11v. To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to...
• subtask13n. An act that must be completed as an element of completing a larger and...
• subtend10v. To use an angle to delimit (mark off, enclose) part of a straight or...
• subtest9n. A test that is part of a larger one.
• subtext16n. An implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or...
• subtree9n. A tree wholly contained in another.
• subtype14n. A group of specific things within a larger, more general group.
• subunit9n. Any subdivision of a larger unit.
• suburbs11n. The populated area surrounding a city.
• subvert12v. To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• subzero18adj. Less than zero, most commonly used to refer to temperature.
• subzone18n. A zone making up part of a larger zone.
• succeed12v. To follow something in sequence or time.
• success11n. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
• succour11n. Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
• succumb15v. To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
• suckage14n. The quality of something that sucks; inferiority; badness.
• sucking14n. An act of sucking.
• suckler13n. An animal that has not yet been weaned.
• sucrase9n. Any of a number of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sucrose to...
• sucrose9n. A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars...
• suction9n. A force which pushes matter from one space into another because the...
• suffice15v. To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be...
• suffuse13v. To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour...
• sugared9adj. Of food or drink: containing sugar.
• suggest9v. To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
• suiting8n. Fabric for making suits.
• sulcate9adj. Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
• sulfate10n. Any salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
• sulfide11n. Any compound of sulfur and a metal or other electropositive element or...
• sulfite10n. Any salt of sulfurous acid.
• sulfone10n. Any of a class of organic compounds that have a sulfonyl functional...
• sulkily14adv. In a sulky manner.
• sulking12n. The act of one who sulks.
• sullied8adj. Stained, soiled.
• sultana7n. A pale yellow raisin made from a seedless grape.
• sultani7n. An infrequently minted coin and former currency unit in Ottoman...
• summand12n. Something which is added or summed.
• summary14adj. Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting...
• summers11adv. In the summer.
• summery14adj. Relating to the summer.
• summing12n. The act or result of addition; a sum.
• summons11n. A call to do something, especially to come.
• sumpter11n. The driver of a packhorse.
• sunbath12n. A period spent tanning (sunbathing) in the sun.
• sunbeam11n. A ray of sunlight; especially, a demarcated, narrow, and intense...
• sunbelt9n. An area or belt of land that receives a lot of sun; specifically, a...
• sunbird10n. A bird belonging to any of several species in the family Nectariniidae.

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