7-letter words containing a, t, r, o
- garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gastro- — stomach
- gloater — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- go-cart — a small carriage for young children to ride in; stroller.
- go-kart — kart.
- gordita — A Mexican flatbread made from cornmeal and stuffed with meat, cheese, vegetables, or a sweet filling.
- grafton — Sue, born 1940, U.S. detective novelist.
- gramont — Philibert [fee-lee-ber] /fi liˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), Comte de, 1621–1707, French courtier, soldier, and adventurer.
- grantor — a person or organization that makes a grant.
- grayout — a temporary impairment of vision due to lack of oxygen
- gyrator — to move in a circle or spiral, or around a fixed point; whirl.
- hardtop — a style of car having a rigid metal top and no center posts between windows.
- haricot — a stew of lamb or mutton with turnips and potatoes.
- harlots — Plural form of harlot.
- harmost — a person serving the ancient Spartans as governor of a subject or conquered town.
- haroset — a mixture of chopped nuts and apples, wine, and spices that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover: traditionally regarded as symbolic of the mortar used by Israelite slaves in Egypt.
- haworth — Sir Walter Norman, 1883–1950, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1937.
- hoaxter — Alternative spelling of hoaxer.
- hogarth — William, 1697–1764, English painter and engraver.
- hoodrat — (slang) A sexually promiscuous girl.
- horatio — a male given name.
- hot air — empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
- hot war — open military conflict; an armed conflict between nations: The increasing tension in the Middle East could lead to a hot war.
- ideator — One who ideates; one who holds or generates an idea, or synthesizes a concept.
- iration — (Rastafari) creation.
- isocrat — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- janitor — a person employed in an apartment house, office building, school, etc., to clean the public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs; caretaker.
- katorga — the system of labour camps in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, a precursor to the Gulag system
- kerato- — indicating horn or a horny substance
- koftgar — (in India) a person skilled in the art of inlaying steel with gold (koftgari)
- la tour — Georges de [zhawrzh duh] /ʒɔrʒ də/ (Show IPA), 1593–1652, French painter.
- latrobe — Benjamin Henry, 1764–1820, U.S. architect and engineer, born in England.
- laxator — (anatomy) A muscle whose contraction loosens some part.
- legator — a person who bequeaths; a testator.
- leotard — a skintight, one-piece garment for the torso, having a high or low neck, long or short sleeves, and a lower portion resembling either briefs or tights, worn by acrobats, dancers, etc.
- levator — Anatomy. a muscle that raises a part of the body. Compare depressor.
- loather — unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse: to be loath to admit a mistake.
- locater — a person who locates something.
- locator — a person who locates something.
- loretta — a female given name, form of Laura.
- lothair — ("the Saxon") c1070–1137, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of the Germans 1125–37.
- low-tar — (of cigarettes or tobacco) containing less tar than usual or standard.
- madwort — a mat-forming plant, Aurinia saxatilis (or Alyssum saxatille), of the mustard family, having spatulate leaves and open clusters of pale yellow flowers.
- maestro — an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music: Toscanini and other great maestros.
- majorat — the right of succession which belongs to the first-born child or son of a family
- manroot — man-of-the-earth.
- mantaro — a river in central Peru, flowing SE to the Apurímac River. About 360 miles (580 km) long.
- marcato — (of notes or chords in a musical score) strongly accented.
- marmots — Plural form of marmot.
- marplot — a person who mars or defeats a plot, design, or project by meddling.