7-letter words containing a, s, r
- affords — to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect: The country can't afford another drought.
- affrays — Plural form of affray.
- afrasia — N Africa and SW Asia considered together.
- afreets — Plural form of afreet.
- agarics — Plural form of agaric.
- agarose — a polysaccharide gelatinous substance usually extracted from agar, used mainly in agarose gel electrophoresis and in microbial cultures
- aggress — to attack first or begin a quarrel
- agister — a person who grazes cattle for money
- agistor — a person who grazes cattle for money
- agreers — Plural form of agreer.
- agreges — a degree awarded by a French university, based on a competitive examination given by the state and qualifying the recipient for the highest teaching positions in a lycée or for the rank of professor in a school of law or medicine.
- ahishar — a chamberlain in Solomon's household. I Kings 4:6.
- air gas — dry air charged with vapor from petroleum or some other hydrocarbon, used for lighting or heating
- air sac — any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds, which increase the efficiency of gaseous exchange in the lungs
- airbags — Plural form of airbag.
- airbase — A base for the operation of military aircraft.
- aircast — a pneumatic brace used to support an injured body part
- airguns — Plural form of airgun.
- airhose — a hose for conducting air under pressure, as one connected to an air pump, an air brake, or a scuba tank.
- airiest — Superlative form of airy.
- airings — Plural form of airing.
- airless — If a place is airless, there is no fresh air in it.
- airpost — the system of delivering mail by air; airmail
- airshed — a region sharing a common flow of air, which may become uniformly polluted and stagnant
- airship — An airship is an aircraft that consists of a large balloon which is filled with gas and is powered by an engine. It has a section underneath for passengers.
- airshot — aircheck
- airshow — An airshow is an event at which aeroplane pilots entertain the public by performing very skilful and complicated movements with the aircraft in the sky.
- airsick — If you are airsick when you are traveling on an aircraft, you experience nausea as a result of the aircraft's motion.
- airside — the part of an airport nearest the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, etc
- airsoft — A modern combat sport in which participants eliminate their opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a compressed-air gun.
- airstop — a landing place for helicopters
- airwash — to cool (a roof or the like) with a current of air.
- airways — The passage by which air reaches a person's lungs.
- airwise — having skill in flying
- aj, sir — Sir A(lfred) J(ules) 1910–1989, English philosopher, teacher, and author.
- akhisar — a town in W Turkey, NE of Izmir.
- akrasia — weakness of will; acting in a way contrary to one's sincerely held moral values
- alarums — Plural form of alarum.
- alastor — an avenging spirit or demon
- algiers — the capital of Algeria, an ancient port on the Mediterranean; until 1830 a centre of piracy. Pop: 3 260 000 (2005 est)
- allures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allure.
- amasser — One who amasses.
- ambries — Plural form of ambry.
- ambrose — Saint. ?340–397 ad, bishop of Milan; built up the secular power of the early Christian Church; also wrote music and Latin hymns. Feast day: Dec 7 or April 4
- amherst — Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst. 1717–97, British general who defeated the French in Canada (1758–60): governor general of British North America (1761–63)
- amorism — the state of someone who is preoccupied with love and lovemaking or with writing about love
- amorist — a lover or a writer about love
- amorosa — a female lover
- amoroso — (to be played) lovingly
- amorous — If you describe someone's feelings or actions as amorous, you mean that they involve sexual desire.