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

  • armhole — The armholes of something such as a shirt or dress are the openings through which you put your arms, or the places where the sleeves are attached.
  • armload — An armload of something is the same as an armful of something.
  • armlock — a hold in which an opponent's arm is gripped in such a manner that it cannot be moved. This is often used with the intention of forcing the opponent into submission.
  • arousal — Arousal is the state of being sexually excited.
  • astrol. — astrological
  • aureola — a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
  • aureole — (esp in paintings of Christian saints and the deity) a border of light or radiance enveloping the head or sometimes the whole of a figure represented as holy
  • auroral — of or like the dawn.
  • awlwort — a small stemless aquatic plant, Subularia aquatica, of the N hemisphere, having slender sharp-pointed leaves and minute, often submerged, white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • 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
  • balfour — Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour. 1848–1930, British Conservative statesman: prime minister (1902–05); foreign secretary (1916–19)
  • bandrol — Alternative form of banderole.
  • barbola — small models of flowers and fruit made from plastic paste for decorative purposes
  • barnlot — barnyard.
  • bartoli — Cecilia. born 1966, Italian mezzo-soprano, noted for her performances in Mozart and Rossini operas
  • 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.
  • bipolar — suffering from bipolar manic-depressive disorder
  • blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
  • bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
  • blokart — a single-seat three-wheeled vehicle with a sail, built to be propelled over land by the wind
  • bolivar — the standard monetary unit of Venezuela, equal to 100 céntimos
  • 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.
  • borlaug — Norman (Ernest). 1914–2009, US agronomist, who bred new strains of high-yielding cereal crops for use in developing countries. Nobel peace prize 1970
  • borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
  • broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
  • brotula — any of several chiefly deep-sea fishes of the family Brotulidae.
  • cajoler — A person who cajoles; a flatterer.
  • caldron — a large kettle or boiler
  • caloric — Caloric means relating to calories.
  • 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
  • caltrop — any tropical or subtropical plant of the zygophyllaceous genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia that have spiny burs or bracts
  • caporal — a strong coarse dark tobacco
  • caracol — caracole.
  • cariole — a small open two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle
  • carload — A carload of people or things is as many people or things as a car can carry.
  • carlock — a type of Russian isinglass made from the bladder of a sturgeon
  • carlota — original name Marie Charlotte Amélie Augustine Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine. 1840–1927, wife of Maximilian; empress of Mexico (1864–67)
  • carlson — Chester1906-68; U.S. inventor; developed xerography
  • carlton — a town in N central England, in S Nottinghamshire. Pop: 48 493 (2001)
  • caroled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
  • caroler — A carol singer.
  • carolus — any of several coins struck in the reign of a king called Charles, esp an English gold coin from the reign of Charles I
  • carolyn — a feminine name
  • caromel — to convert or be converted into caramel
  • carpool — A carpool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. A carpool also refers to the people traveling together in a car.
  • carroll — Lewis. real name the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. 1832–98, English writer; an Oxford mathematics don who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872) and the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
  • chabrol — Claude (klod). 1930–2010, French film director, whose films, such as Le Beau Serge (1958), Les Biches (1968), Le Boucher (1969), Au coeur du mensonge (1999), and La Fleur du mal (2003) explore themes of jealousy, guilt, and murder
  • charlotJean [jeen;; French zhahn] /dʒin;; French ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1898–1979, U.S. painter, lithographer, and illustrator; born in France and active in Mexico.
  • chloral — a colourless oily liquid with a pungent odour, made from chlorine and acetaldehyde and used in preparing chloral hydrate and DDT; trichloroacetaldehyde
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