7-letter words containing a, e, o
- offbeat — differing from the usual or expected; unconventional: an offbeat comedian.
- offpeak — Alternative form of off-peak.
- offtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like, to an uptake or downtake.
- oilcake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
- oildale — a town in SW California.
- old age — the last period of human life, now often considered to be the years after 65.
- oleates — Plural form of oleate.
- olestra — a synthetic oil used as a substitute for dietary fat: not digested or absorbed by the human body.
- omakase — (Japanese cuisine) Chef's choice.
- omental — a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- ominate — (obsolete) To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken.
- omphale — a queen of Lydia, whom Hercules was required to serve as a slave to atone for the murder of Iphitus
- on base — at a base, having reached it safely with a base hit, walk, etc.
- on heat — (of some female mammals) sexually receptive
- on sale — the act of selling.
- on seat — (of officials) in the office rather than on tour or on leave
- on-peak — peak1 (def 17).
- on-seam — inseam (def 3).
- onagers — Plural form of onager.
- one day — someday: an unspecified day in the future
- one-act — a short play consisting of one act.
- one-man — of or relating to, or operated, performed, or used by one person: a one-man office; a one-man band.
- one-way — moving, or allowing movement in one direction only: a one-way street.
- oneonta — a city in E central New York.
- onsager — Lars, 1903–76, U.S. chemist, born in Norway: Nobel prize 1968.
- onstage — on or onto the stage (opposed to offstage): The director shouted, “Onstage, everybody!”.
- onstead — (UK, Scotland, dialect) A single farmhouse; a steading.
- ootheca — a case or capsule containing eggs, as that of certain gastropods and insects.
- opaleye — a green game fish, Girella nigricans, common off rocky shores from California southward, having opalescent blue eyes.
- opaline — of or like opal; opalescent.
- opalize — To convert into a form of opal or chalcedony, especially to convert wood into such a fossilized form.
- opaqued — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- opaques — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opaque.
- opelika — a city in E Alabama.
- operand — a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
- operant — operating; producing effects.
- operate — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- ophelia — a female given name.
- opiated — Simple past tense and past participle of opiate.
- opiates — Plural form of opiate.
- or gate — a circuit that is energized when any of its inputs are energized.
- oraches — Plural form of orache.
- oracles — (especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
- oranges — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- orangey — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- orantes — orant.
- ordeals — Plural form of ordeal.
- oreades — Plural form of oread.
- oregano — an aromatic herb, Origanum vulgare, of the mint family, having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
- orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.