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7-letter words containing a, r, o, d

  • aykroyd — Dan. born 1952, Canadian film actor and screenwriter, best known for the television show Saturday Night Live (1975–80) and the films The Blues Brothers (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  • bandora — A bass stringed instrument of the cittern family, having a long neck and a scallop-shaped body.
  • bandore — a 16th-century plucked musical instrument resembling a lute but larger and fitted with seven pairs of metal strings
  • bandrol — Alternative form of banderole.
  • barbudo — beardfish.
  • 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
  • barwood — a red wood from a small African tree, Baphia nitida, primarily used to produce dye and in the construction of violin bows
  • beograd — Belgrade
  • 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.
  • bodhran — shallow one-sided drum popular in Irish and Scottish folk music
  • 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)
  • boiardo — Matteo Maria (matˈtɛːo maˈria), conte de Scandiano. 1434–94, Italian poet; author of the historical epic Orlando Innamorato (1487)
  • bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1434–94, Italian poet.
  • bollard — Bollards are short thick concrete posts that are used to prevent cars from going on to someone's land or on to part of a road.
  • bombard — If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
  • bonnard — Pierre (pjɛr). 1867–1947, French painter and lithographer, noted for the effects of light and colour in his landscapes and sunlit interiors
  • bradsot — braxy (def 1).
  • braford — one of a breed of beef cattle, developed in the southwestern U.S. from Brahman and Hereford stock, especially well adapted to sparse grazing and a hot, humid environment.
  • bragdonClaude, 1866–1946, U.S. architect, stage designer, and author.
  • brandon — a masculine name
  • bravado — Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
  • broad a — of or relating to a type of pronunciation transcription in which symbols correspond approximately to phonemes without taking account of allophonic variations
  • broadax — an ax with a broad blade, used as a weapon or for hewing timber
  • broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
  • broader — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
  • broadus — something given as a bonus; lagniappe.
  • brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
  • brocard — an elementary legal principle, often expressed in Latin
  • bucardo — a recently extinct Spanish mountain goat
  • by-road — a side road.
  • caldron — a large kettle or boiler
  • camcord — (rare, transitive) To record using a camcorder.
  • candour — Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
  • cardio- — heart
  • cardoon — a thistle-like S European plant, Cynara cardunculus, closely related to the artichoke, with spiny leaves, purple flowers, and a leafstalk that may be blanched and eaten: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • cardoso — Fernando Henrique. born 1931, Brazilian statesman; president (1995–2002)
  • cardozo — Benjamin Nathan1870-1938; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1932-38)
  • carload — A carload of people or things is as many people or things as a car can carry.
  • caroled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
  • caromed — Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
  • carotid — either one of the two principal arteries that supply blood to the head and neck
  • cerrado — a vast area of tropical savanna in Brazil
  • chadors — Plural form of chador.
  • chobdar — a macebearer or attendant of a king or eminent dignitary in India
  • chordal — of, relating to, or resembling a chord.
  • cod war — any of three disputes that occurred in 1958, 1972–73, and 1975–76 between Britain and Iceland, concerning Iceland's unilateral extension of her fishing limits
  • collard — a variety of the cabbage, Brassica oleracea acephala, having a crown of edible leaves
  • comrade — Your comrades are your friends, especially friends that you share a difficult or dangerous situation with.
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