7-letter words containing l, o, r
- armhole — The armholes of something such as a shirt or dress are the openings through which you put your arms, or the places where the sleeves are attached.
- armload — An armload of something is the same as an armful of something.
- armlock — a hold in which an opponent's arm is gripped in such a manner that it cannot be moved. This is often used with the intention of forcing the opponent into submission.
- arousal — Arousal is the state of being sexually excited.
- astrol. — astrological
- aureola — a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
- aureole — (esp in paintings of Christian saints and the deity) a border of light or radiance enveloping the head or sometimes the whole of a figure represented as holy
- auroral — of or like the dawn.
- awlwort — a small stemless aquatic plant, Subularia aquatica, of the N hemisphere, having slender sharp-pointed leaves and minute, often submerged, white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- axelrod — Julius. 1912–2004, US neuropharmacologist, renowned for his work on catecholamines. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (with von Euler and Bernard Katz) 1970
- balfour — Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour. 1848–1930, British Conservative statesman: prime minister (1902–05); foreign secretary (1916–19)
- bandrol — Alternative form of banderole.
- barbola — small models of flowers and fruit made from plastic paste for decorative purposes
- barnlot — barnyard.
- bartoli — Cecilia. born 1966, Italian mezzo-soprano, noted for her performances in Mozart and Rossini operas
- bedroll — A bedroll is a rolled-up sleeping bag or other form of bedding, which you can carry with you.
- belabor — If you say that someone belabors the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way.
- belfort — a fortress town in E France: strategically situated in the Belfort Gap between the Vosges and the Jura mountains. Pop: 50 417 (1999)
- berlioz — Hector (Louis) (ɛktɔr). 1803–69, French composer, regarded as a pioneer of modern orchestration. His works include the cantata La Damnation de Faust (1846), the operas Les Troyens (1856–59) and Béatrice et Bénédict (1860–62), the Symphonie fantastique (1830), and the oratorio L'Enfance du Christ (1854)
- bicolor — of two colors
- bipolar — suffering from bipolar manic-depressive disorder
- blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
- bleriot — Louis (lwi). 1872–1936, French aviator and aeronautical engineer: made the first flight across the English Channel (1909)
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- blocker — a person or thing that acts as a block
- blogger — a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.
- blokart — a single-seat three-wheeled vehicle with a sail, built to be propelled over land by the wind
- blonder — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- bloomer — a plant that flowers, esp in a specified way
- blooper — A blooper is a silly mistake.
- blotter — A blotter is a large sheet of blotting paper kept in a special holder on a desk.
- boerbul — a crossbred mastiff used esp as a watchdog
- boggler — a person who boggles, or a thing which causes one to boggle
- boilery — a place where water is boiled in order to extract salt
- bolivar — the standard monetary unit of Venezuela, equal to 100 céntimos
- bollard — Bollards are short thick concrete posts that are used to prevent cars from going on to someone's land or on to part of a road.
- bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
- boodler — a person involved in bribery or corruption
- borelli — Giovanni Alfonso [joh-vah-nee al-fon-soh,, -zoh,, jee-uh-;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee ahl-fawn-zaw] /dʒoʊˈvɑ ni ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ,, ˌdʒi ə-;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni ɑlˈfɔn zɔ/ (Show IPA), 1608–79, Italian astronomer, physicist, and physiologist.
- borglum — (John) Gutzon (ˈɡʌtsən). 1867–1941, US sculptor, noted for his monumental busts of US presidents carved in the mountainside of Mount Rushmore
- borlaug — Norman (Ernest). 1914–2009, US agronomist, who bred new strains of high-yielding cereal crops for use in developing countries. Nobel peace prize 1970
- borneol — a white solid terpene alcohol extracted from the Malaysian tree Dryobalanops aromatica, used in perfume and in the manufacture of organic esters. Formula: C10H17OH
- borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
- bottler — A bottler is a person or company that puts drinks into bottles.
- boulder — A boulder is a large rounded rock.
- boulter — a long, stout fishing line with several hooks attached.
- bowlder — boulder
- 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
- broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.