7-letter words containing i, l, o
- bowline — a line for controlling the weather leech of a square sail when a vessel is close-hauled
- bowling — Bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track towards a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
- boxlike — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- bricole — a shot in which the cue ball touches a cushion after striking the object ball and before touching another ball
- bristol — seaport in Avon, SW England: county district pop. 376,000
- broglie — Achille Charles Léonce Victor Duc de Broglie1785-1870; Fr. statesman under Napoleon I & Louis Philippe
- broiler — A broiler is a part of a stove which produces strong heat and cooks food placed underneath it.
- bromoil — an offset reproduction produced by the bromoil process.
- bucolic — Bucolic means relating to the countryside.
- bullion — Bullion is gold or silver, usually in the form of bars.
- cabildo — a municipal council, or a town hall, in Latin America
- 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.
- calvino — Italo. 1923–85, Italian novelist and short-story writer. His works include Our Ancestors (1960) and Invisible Cities (1972)
- cannoli — a Sicilian pudding of pasta shells filled with sweetened ricotta
- capitol — A capitol is a government building in which a state legislature meets.
- cariole — a small open two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle
- celosia — any of several species (genus Celosia) of the amaranth family, of annual garden plants with minute, brilliant red or yellow flowers in large clusters; cockscomb
- cheilo- — chilo-
- cheloid — keloid
- chillon — a castle in W Switzerland, in Vaud at the E end of Lake Geneva
- chloric — of or containing chlorine in the pentavalent state
- chlorid — Archaic form of chloride.
- chlorin — (organic compound) A large heterocyclic aromatic ring consisting, at the core, of three pyrroles and one pyrroline coupled through four methine linkages.
- choline — a colourless viscous soluble alkaline substance present in animal tissues, esp as a constituent of lecithin: used as a supplement to the diet of poultry and in medicine for preventing the accumulation of fat in the liver. Formula:[(CH3)3NCH2CH2OH]+OH–
- chorial — Embryology. the outermost of the extraembryonic membranes of land vertebrates, contributing to the formation of the placenta in the placental mammals.
- cineole — eucalyptol
- cipolin — an Italian marble with alternating white and green streaks
- citoles — Plural form of citole.
- clarino — of or relating to a high passage for the trumpet in 18th-century music
- clarion — a four-foot reed stop of trumpet quality on an organ
- clifton — a masculine name
- clinoid — (anatomy) Like a bed.
- clinton — Bill, full name William Jefferson Clinton. born 1946, US Democrat politician; 42nd president of the US (1993–2001)
- clip on — designed to be clipped on easily, especially by a self-attached clip: a clip-on bow tie.
- clip-on — A clip-on object is designed to be fastened to something by means of a clip.
- cloison — a partition
- cloning — the process of making an identical copy of an organism or cell
- clonism — a series of clonic spasms
- clootie — (usually initial capital letter) cloot (def 2).
- closing — The closing part of an activity or period of time is the final part of it.
- cloying — You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental.
- coalbin — a bin for holding coal
- coalify — to turn into coal
- coaling — Present participle of coal.
- coalise — to form a coalition
- coalize — to form a coalition
- coaxial — having or being mounted on a common axis
- cockily — in a cocky manner
- coctile — made by exposing to heat