7-letter words containing a, e, r, o
- aveyron — a department of S France in Midi-Pyrénées region. Capital: Rodez. Pop: 266 940 (2003 est). Area: 8771 sq km (3421 sq miles)
- avodire — a yellow hardwood from an African tree
- avoider — to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger.
- axelrod — Julius. 1912–2004, US neuropharmacologist, renowned for his work on catecholamines. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (with von Euler and Bernard Katz) 1970
- baconer — a pig that weighs between 83 and 101 kg, from which bacon is cut
- bandore — a 16th-century plucked musical instrument resembling a lute but larger and fitted with seven pairs of metal strings
- barcode — a machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines of different widths printed on a package, which can be electronically scanned at a checkout to register the price of the goods and to activate computer stock-checking and reordering
- baronet — A baronet is a man who has been made a knight. When a baronet dies, the title is passed on to his son.
- baronne — baroness
- baroque — Baroque architecture and art is an elaborate style of architecture and art that was popular in Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
- barotse — a member of a Negroid people of central Africa living chiefly in SW Zambia
- battero — a heavy club
- bear on — to be relevant to; relate to
- begorra — an emphatic exclamation, regarded as a characteristic utterance of Irish people
- begroan — to groan at or about
- belabor — If you say that someone belabors the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way.
- beograd — Belgrade
- bergamo — a walled city in N Italy, in Lombardy. Pop: 113 143 (2001)
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- boarded — a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- boarder — A boarder is a pupil who lives at school during the term.
- boaster — a chisel for boasting stone.
- bogarde — Sir Dirk, real name Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde. 1920–99, British film actor and writer: his films include The Servant (1963) and Death in Venice (1970). His writings include the autobiographical A Postillion Struck by Lightning (1977) and the novel A Period of Adjustment (1994)
- bonaire — an island in the S Caribbean, part of the Netherlands Antilles until their dissolution in 2010, now a special municipality of the Netherlands: one of the Leeward Islands. Chief town: Kralendijk. Pop: 11 537 (2007 est). Area: about 288 sq km (111 sq miles)
- bornean — of or relating to Borneo or its inhabitants
- bracero — a Mexican labourer working in the USA, esp one admitted into the country to relieve labour shortages during and immediately after World War II
- brasero — a large metal tray for holding burning coals
- broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
- broader — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- brokage — brokerage.
- bromate — any salt or ester of bromic acid, containing the monovalent group -BrO3 or ion BrO3–
- cabover — of or denoting a truck or lorry in which the cab is over the engine
- cajoler — A person who cajoles; a flatterer.
- calorie — Calories are units used to measure the energy value of food. People who are on diets try to eat food that does not contain many calories.
- caloyer — a monk of the Greek Orthodox Church, esp of the Basilian Order
- cameron — David (William Donald). born 1966, British politician; leader of the Conservative party 2005–16; prime minister 2010–16
- camrose — a city in central Alberta, in W Canada, near Edmonton.
- carbone — Obsolete form of carbon.
- care of — at the address of: written on envelopes
- cargoes — the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
- cariole — a small open two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle
- carnose — fleshy
- caroche — a stately ceremonial carriage used in the 16th and 17th centuries
- caroled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
- caroler — A carol singer.
- caromed — Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- caromel — to convert or be converted into caramel
- carouse — If you say that people are carousing, you mean that they are behaving very noisily and drinking a lot of alcohol as they enjoy themselves.
- cerato- — denoting horn or a hornlike part