7-letter words containing i, r, a
- aquaria — a glass-sided tank, bowl, or the like, in which fish or other living aquatic animals or plants are kept.
- aquifer — In geology, an aquifer is an area of rock underneath the surface of the earth which absorbs and holds water.
- aquiver — quivering
- arabian — Arabian means belonging or relating to Arabia, especially to Saudi Arabia.
- arabica — a high-quality coffee bean obtained from the tree Coffea arabica
- arabist — An Arabist is a person who supports Arab interests or knows a lot about the Arabic language.
- arabize — to transfer to Arab control
- aracari — any of several small toucans of the genus Pteroglossus, having strongly serrate bills and yellow underparts marked with black and red.
- arachis — any of various plants native to South America and belonging to the genus Arachis of the family Fabaceae, the most famous of which is the peanut (Arachis hypogaea)
- araised — Simple past tense and past participle of araise.
- aralias — Plural form of aralia.
- aramaic — an ancient language of the Middle East, still spoken in parts of Syria and the Lebanon, belonging to the NW Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family. Originally the speech of Aram, in the 5th century bc it spread to become the lingua franca of the Persian empire
- araneid — any of numerous arachnids constituting the order Araneae (or Araneida), which comprises the spiders
- arariba — Any of the trees of three species in the genus Centrolobium (family Fabaceae), especially, a Brazilian tree (Centrolobium robustum) -- called also zebrawood.
- aration — (obsolete, agriculture) ploughing, tillage.
- arausio — a town in SE France: a small principality in the Middle Ages, the descendants of which formed the House of Orange. Pop: 27 989 (1999)
- arbiter — An arbiter is a person or institution that judges and settles a quarrel between two other people or groups.
- arborio — a variety of cultivated short-grain rice with a high starch content: used especially for risotto.
- arcadia — a department of Greece, in the central Peloponnese. Capital: Tripolis. Pop: 91 326 (2001). Area: 4367 sq km (1686 sq miles)
- arcadic — of or relating to the Arcadians or to their dialect of Ancient Greek
- archaic — Archaic means extremely old or extremely old-fashioned.
- archine — a Russian unit of length equal to about 71 cm
- arching — forming an arch
- archit. — architecture
- archive — The archive or archives are a collection of documents and records that contain historical information. You can also use archives to refer to the place where archives are stored.
- arcking — a present participle of arc.
- arcsine — the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
- arctics — high, warm, waterproof overshoes, usually with buckles
- arctiid — any moth of the family Arctiidae, which includes the footman, ermine, and tiger moths
- arctoid — similar to a bear
- ardabil — city in NW Iran, near the Caspian Sea: pop. 311,000
- ardebil — a town in NW Iran, near the Caspian Sea.
- arecibo — seaport in N Puerto Rico: pop. 100,000
- arenite — any arenaceous rock; a sandstone
- aretino — Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1492–1556, Italian satirist, poet, and dramatist, noted for his satirical attacks on leading political figures
- argalis — Plural form of argali.
- argasid — any of the numerous ticks of the family Argasidae, comprising the soft ticks.
- argolis — a department and ancient region of Greece, in the NE Peloponnese. Capital: Nauplion. Pop: 102 392 (2001). Area: 2261 sq km (873 sq miles)
- argotic — a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification: a Restoration play rich in thieves' argot.
- argovie — Aargau
- arguido — A person kept for questioning who is not a formal suspect.
- arguing — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- argyria — discoloration of the skin caused by exposure to silver
- ariadne — daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë: she gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth
- aridity — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- arietta — a short relatively uncomplicated aria
- ariette — a short aria.
- arigato — (Japanese, colloquial) thank you.
- arikara — a member of a North American Indian people living along the Missouri River in W North Dakota
- arillus — an aril