7-letter words containing i, o, u
- nourice — a nurse.
- nourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- noxious — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
- nuncios — Plural form of nuncio.
- nut oil — oil obtained from walnuts, hazelnuts, etc, used in paints and varnishes and in cooking
- obitual — Of or relating to obits.
- oblique — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- obvious — easily seen, recognized, or understood; open to view or knowledge; evident: an obvious advantage.
- occiput — the back part of the head or skull.
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- oedipus — a king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, and the father by Jocasta of Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismeme: as was prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile.
- ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- omnibus — bus1 (def 1).
- ophiura — a sea creature, similar to a starfish, of the Ophiuridae family
- oppidum — A large, defended Iron Age settlement associated with the Celtic La Tène culture.
- optimum — the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.
- optique — Obsolete form of optic.
- opuntia — A cactus of a genus that comprises the prickly pears.
- orarium — orarion.
- orosius — Paulus [paw-luh s] /ˈpɔ ləs/ (Show IPA), flourished 5th century a.d, Spanish theologian and historian.
- osmious — of or containing osmium in its lower valences.
- ouabain — a glycoside occurring as a white, crystalline powder, C 2 9 H 4 4 O 1 2 , obtained from the seeds of a shrub, Strophanthus gratus, or from the wood of trees of the genus Acokanthera, and used in medicine chiefly as a cardiac stimulant.
- ouakari — Alternative form of uakari.
- oubangi — French name of Ubangi.
- ouguiya — a cupronickel-aluminum coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Mauritania, equal to five khoums.
- ounding — (obsolete) waving.
- our kid — my younger brother or sister
- ouraris — curare.
- ousting — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- oustiti — a device for opening a locked door from the outside
- out-bid — to outdo in bidding; make a higher bid than (another bidder).
- outbids — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbid.
- outchid — to express disapproval of; scold; reproach: The principal chided the children for their thoughtless pranks.
- outcity — located outside a city's confines
- outfind — to find out or discover
- outfire — (Sussex) A visit by one bonfire society to join in with the celebrations of another.
- outfish — to catch more fish than
- outfits — Plural form of outfit.
- outgain — to gain more than
- outgive — (transitive) To surpass in giving; to give more than.
- outgrin — to exceed in grinning
- outhire — to hire out
- outings — Plural form of outing.
- outjies — Plural form of outjie.
- outjinx — to exceed in jinxing
- outkick — to exceed in kicking
- outkill — to exceed in killing
- outkiss — to exceed in kissing
- outlaid — simple past tense and past participle of outlay.
- outlier — something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands: The small factory was an outlier, and unproductive, so the corporation sold it off to private owners who were able to make it profitable.