7-letter words containing a, r, l
- nadiral — Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- nailers — Plural form of nailer.
- nailery — a nail factory
- nariyal — (India) coconut.
- narwals — Plural form of narwal.
- narwhal — a small arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, the male of which has a long, spirally twisted tusk extending forward from the upper jaw.
- natural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- nebular — Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
- nemoral — Pertaining to groves or woodland.
- neurula — an embryo in the stage of development in which part of the ectoderm is differentiated into neural tissue and in which the neural tube, which develops into the brain and spinal cord, is formed.
- neutral — not taking part or giving assistance in a dispute or war between others: a neutral nation during World War II.
- nodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- nonoral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- norland — northland.
- normale — A normal espresso drink, neither ristretto (shorter) nor lungo (longer).
- normals — Plural form of normal.
- norwalk — a city in SW California.
- nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- nullary — (programming) A description of an operator or function which takes no arguments, e.g. a function that returns the current time. "Nullary" is part of the unary, binary, ternary sequence, and is more common than its synonym niladic.
- numeral — a word, letter, symbol, or figure, etc., expressing a number; number: the Roman numerals.
- oarlock — any of various devices providing a pivot for an oar in rowing, especially a swiveling, crutchlike or ringlike metal device projecting above a gunwale.
- oastler — Richard. 1789–1861, British social reformer; he campaigned against child labour and helped achieve the ten-hour day (1847)
- obolary — poor or having only coins of low value in one's possession
- ocellar — pertaining to an ocellus.
- oculars — Plural form of ocular.
- odaller — a person who owns land that has been directly inherited from family
- olestra — a synthetic oil used as a substitute for dietary fat: not digested or absorbed by the human body.
- olivary — shaped like an olive.
- omolara — a male given name: from a West African word meaning “child born at the right time.”.
- 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.
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- oralist — an advocate of oralism.
- orality — the condition or quality of being oral; collectively, the personality traits characteristic of the oral phase of psychosexual development.
- orbital — of or relating to an orbit.
- ordeals — Plural form of ordeal.
- ordinal — of or relating to an order, as of animals or plants.
- orillia — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- orlando — Vittorio Emanuele [veet-taw-ryaw e-mah-noo-e-le] /vitˈtɔ ryɔ ˌɛ mɑ nuˈɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1860–1952, Italian statesman.
- orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
- ortegal — Cape, a cape in NW Spain, on the Bay of Biscay.
- ortolan — the bobolink.
- oscular — pertaining to an osculum.
- osmolar — Of or pertaining to osmolarity.
- ovarial — ovarian
- overall — overalls, (used with a plural verb) loose, sturdy trousers, usually with a bib or biblike piece to which shoulder straps are attached, originally worn over other trousers to protect them, as by factory workers or farmers. long waterproof leggings.
- overlap — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overlax — too lax
- overlay — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- overlea — a town in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- ovulary — the part of a plant's anatomy where ovules develop