| ASP | • asp n. (Archaic) A water snake. • asp n. A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis). • asp n. The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje). |
| BECLASP | • beclasp v. (Dated) To clasp. • BECLASP v. to clasp, embrace. |
| CLASP | • clasp n. A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps. • clasp n. (In the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake. • clasp v. (Transitive) To take hold of; to grasp. |
| ENCLASP | • enclasp v. To hold in (or as if in) a clasp; to embrace. • ENCLASP v. to embrace, also INCLASP. |
| ENGRASP | • engrasp v. (Obsolete) To grasp; to grip. • ENGRASP v. (Spenser) to grasp. |
| GALLIWASP | • galliwasp n. Any of the lizards in the genus Celestus. • GALLIWASP n. a West Indian lizard, about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous. |
| GASP | • gasp v. (Intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. • gasp v. (Intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion; to respire with heaving… • gasp v. (Transitive) To speak in a breathless manner. |
| GRASP | • grasp v. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand. • grasp v. To understand. • grasp v. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance. |
| HANDCLASP | • handclasp n. A handshake. • HANDCLASP n. a handshake. |
| HASP | • hasp n. A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door. • hasp n. A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on. • hasp n. Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”). |
| INCLASP | • inclasp v. Archaic form of enclasp. • INCLASP v. to embrace, also ENCLASP. |
| JASP | • jasp n. Obsolete form of jasper. • JASP n. (Spenser) a precious stone, jasper, also JASPIS. |
| RASP | • rasp n. A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of… • rasp n. The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound. • rasp v. (Intransitive) To use a rasp. |
| RECLASP | • reclasp v. To clasp or unite again. • RECLASP v. to clasp again. |
| TIECLASP | • TIECLASP n. a clasp for securing a necktie. |
| UNCLASP | • unclasp v. (Transitive) to release the clasp from something. • unclasp v. (Intransitive) to become unfastened. • unclasp v. (Transitive) to separate from being clasped. |
| UNHASP | • unhasp v. (Obsolete) To unfasten. • UNHASP v. to unfasten a hasp. |
| WASP | • wasp n. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet. • wasp n. (Entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees… • wasp n. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish. |
| WOODWASP | • woodwasp n. Any of various not closely related insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps)… • wood␣wasp n. Alternative spelling of woodwasp. • WOODWASP n. a large wasplike insect. |