7-letter words containing a, n, o, i
- evasion — The action of evading something.
- faction — a form of writing or filmmaking that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses them as an integral part of a fictional account.
- fanions — Plural form of fanion.
- fashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- favicon — An icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in a browser’s address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark list.
- foaling — a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- foaming — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- focsani — a town in E central Romania.
- folacin — folic acid.
- fontina — a type of Italian cheese, semisoft to firm, made of cow's or sheep's milk.
- franion — a paramour; a lover
- gabions — Plural form of gabion.
- gain on — catch up with
- galopin — an errand-boy, especially one who works for a cook
- ganoids — Plural form of ganoid.
- ganoine — (zoology) A kind of bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.
- gaoling — Present participle of gaol.
- gigaton — one billion tons. Abbreviation: GT.
- goading — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- goating — A scapegoating.
- goiania — a state in central Brazil. 247,826 sq. mi. (641,870 sq. km). Capital: Goiânia.
- gonidia — Plural form of gonidium.
- gordian — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
- gournia — a village in NE Crete, near the site of an excavated Minoan town and palace.
- gradino — (architecture) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar.
- hainous — Obsolete spelling of heinous.
- hallion — a disreputable or useless lout
- haloing — Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
- hispano — Hispanic
- hoatzin — a blue-faced, crested bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, of the Amazon and Orinoco forests, having as a nestling a large, temporary claw on the second and third digits of the forelimb, for climbing among the tree branches.
- hoaxing — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- hobnail — a large-headed nail for protecting the soles of heavy boots and shoes.
- hokiang — Older Spelling. Hejiang.
- honiara — (used with a plural verb) an archipelago in the W Pacific Ocean, E of New Guinea; important World War II battles; politically divided between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
- idahoan — a state in the NW United States. 83,557 sq. mi. (216,415 sq. km). Capital: Boise. Abbreviation: ID (for use with zip code), Id., Ida.
- ilocano — a member of a people of Luzon in the Philippines.
- ilokano — Ilocano.
- in-goal — the area at either end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
- inboard — located nearer the longitudinal axis or center, as of an airplane: the inboard section of a wing.
- inocula — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- inroads — a damaging or serious encroachment: inroads on our savings.
- insofar — to such an extent (usually followed by as): I will do the work insofar as I am able.
- iration — (Rastafari) creation.
- ironman — An extremely tough and strong athlete, especially one who competes in extreme athletic competitions or in a large number of games consecutively.
- isolani — (chess) A pawn on the d file with no pawns of the same colour on the adjacent c and e file; an isolated queen pawn.
- ivanhoe — a novel (1819) by Sir Walter Scott.
- ivanovo — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- ivorian — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa; gained independence 1960. 127,520 sq. mi. (330,275 sq. km). Capital: Abidjan.
- jabroni — (professional wrestling slang) a performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
- jacobin — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.