7-letter words containing a, p, o, r
- charpoy — a bedstead of woven webbing or hemp stretched on a wooden frame on four legs, common in India
- compare — When you compare things, you consider them and discover the differences or similarities between them.
- compart — to divide into parts
- compear — to appear in court
- cop car — a police car
- copular — (grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
- corpora — Corpora is a plural of corpus.
- crampon — Crampons are metal plates with spikes underneath which mountain climbers fasten to the bottom of their boots, especially when there is snow or ice, in order to make climbing easier.
- crapola — rubbish; nonsense
- cupolar — relating to or resembling a cupola
- dioptra — Alternative form of diopter.
- dipolar — Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- eardrop — an earring with a pendant.
- emporia — Irregular plural form of emporium.
- esparto — A coarse grass with tough narrow leaves, native to Spain and North Africa. It is used to make ropes, wickerwork, and high-quality paper.
- exocarp — The outer layer of the pericarp of a fruit.
- forepaw — the paw of a foreleg.
- geopark — A UNESCO-designated area containing one or more sites of particular geological importance, intended to conserve the geological heritage and promote public awareness of it, typically through tourism.
- gopuram — A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India.
- grapho- — writing or drawing
- guapore — a river forming part of the boundary between Brazil and Bolivia, flowing NW to the Mamoré River. 950 miles (1530 km) long.
- hardtop — a style of car having a rigid metal top and no center posts between windows.
- harp on — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- harpoon — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- jawrope — a rope tied across the jaw of a gaff to hold it to the mast.
- jeopard — to jeopardize.
- laparo- — the flank, the abdominal wall
- lapwork — a type of craftwork in which there are parts or edges that overlap each other
- leopard — a large, spotted Asian or African carnivore, Panthera pardus, of the cat family, usually tawny with black markings; the Old World panther: all leopard populations are threatened or endangered.
- leproma — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- mampoer — a home-distilled brandy made from peaches, prickly pears, etc
- manrope — a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- marplot — a person who mars or defeats a plot, design, or project by meddling.
- maspero — Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- meropia — partial blindness.
- mompara — (South Africa) A fool.
- morphan — A chemical compound, the base of the benzomorphan family of drugs.
- morphea — (medicine) localized scleroderma.
- morphia — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- nonpark — Not of or pertaining to a park.
- offramp — Alternative spelling of off-ramp.
- on-ramp — an entrance lane for traffic from a street to a turnpike or freeway.
- 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.
- ophiura — a sea creature, similar to a starfish, of the Ophiuridae family
- oropesa — a float used in minesweeping
- orphans — Plural form of orphan.
- orphean — Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- outpart — a remote region