7-letter words containing i, s, o, r
- corliss — George Henry, 1817–88, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- cornish — Cornish means belonging or relating to the English county of Cornwall.
- cornist — a person who plays the horn
- coronis — a symbol placed over a contracted syllable
- corries — Plural form of corrie.
- corsair — a pirate
- corsica — an island in the Mediterranean, west of N Italy: forms, with 43 islets, a region of France; mountainous; settled by Greeks in about 560 bc; sold by Genoa to France in 1768. Capital: Ajaccio. Pop: 265 999 (2003 est). Area: 8682 sq km (3367 sq miles)
- corsive — a corrosive drug
- corvids — Plural form of corvid.
- cowries — Plural form of cowrie.
- crimson — Something that is crimson is deep red in colour.
- crinose — hairy
- cronies — Plural form of crony.
- cronish — a withered, witchlike old woman.
- croquis — a rough sketch of a live model
- crosier — a staff surmounted by a crook or cross, carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
- curiosa — curiosities
- curious — eager to learn; inquisitive
- devisor — a person who devises property, esp realty, by will
- devoirs — compliments or respects; courteous attentions
- diorism — definition; clarity
- discoer — a person who attends discos
- discord — lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
- disform — (transitive, archaic) To deform or disfigure.
- dishorn — (transitive) To deprive of horns.
- disport — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disrobe — Take off one's clothes.
- disroot — to uproot; dislodge.
- distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- divisor — a number by which another number, the dividend, is divided.
- dorkish — stupid or contemptible
- dossier — a collection or file of documents on the same subject, especially a complete file containing detailed information about a person or topic.
- dowries — Plural form of dowry.
- dronish — Like a drone, slow, sluggish.
- durions — Plural form of durion.
- ebriose — inebriated
- editors — Plural form of editor.
- embrios — Plural form of embrio.
- erasion — The act of erasing; a rubbing out or obliteration.
- ericson — Leif (liːf). 10th–11th centuries ad, Norse navigator, who discovered Vinland (?1000), variously identified as the coast of New England, Labrador, or Newfoundland; son of Eric the Red
- erosion — The process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents.
- erosive — Of or pertaining to erosion.
- erotism — Sexual desire or excitement; eroticism.
- estoril — a resort in W Portugal, near Lisbon, on the Atlantic Ocean: noted esp for a famous avenue of palm trees leading to the seafront. Pop: 23 769 (2001)
- estriol — An estrogen that is one of the metabolic products of estradiol.
- eurisko — (artificial intelligence) A language for "opportunistic programming" written by Doug Lenat in 1978. Eurisko constructs its own methods and modifies its strategies as it tries to solve a problem.
- euroist — a person who is enthusiastic about the adoption of the euro as a currency unit
- excisor — One who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.
- fibrose — to become fibrous, to form fibrous tissue
- fibrous — containing, consisting of, or resembling fibers.