7-letter words containing l, s, e, r
- nailers — Plural form of nailer.
- nestler — One that nestles.
- nurdles — Plural form of nurdle.
- oastler — Richard. 1789–1861, British social reformer; he campaigned against child labour and helped achieve the ten-hour day (1847)
- oldster — an old or elderly person.
- olestra — a synthetic oil used as a substitute for dietary fat: not digested or absorbed by the human body.
- or else — other than the persons or things mentioned or implied: What else could I have done?
- oracles — (especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
- orbless — characterized by the absence of orbs
- ordeals — Plural form of ordeal.
- orioles — Plural form of oriole.
- orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
- ourself — Used instead of “ ourselves, ” typically when “ we ” refers to people in general rather than a definite group of people.
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parsley — an herb, Pertoselinum crispum, native to the Mediterranean, having either curled leaf clusters (French parsley) or flat compound leaves (Italian parsley) widely cultivated for use in garnishing or seasoning food. Compare parsley family.
- pelorus — a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- pelters — strong criticism or verbal abuse
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- pilsner — a pale, light lager beer.
- plasher — a person who forms hedges by means of interweaving the branches or vines
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- pleaser — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- plessor — plexor.
- prelims — preliminary.
- presale — a sale held in advance of an advertised sale, as for select customers.
- presell — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- presley — Elvis (Aron) 1935–77, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer.
- presold — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- prestel — a videotex system in which information could be received via a telephone line and viewed on an adapted television
- psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
- quarles — Francis, 1592–1644, English poet.
- rabbles — Plural form of rabble.
- raddles — Plural form of raddle.
- raffles — rubbish.
- railers — to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation (often followed by at or against): to rail at fate.
- rankles — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- raschel — a type of loosely knitted fabric
- rayless — lacking rays or raylike parts.
- realise — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- realist — a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
- reclass — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- reclose — to close (something) again
- recluse — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- recusal — the disqualification of a judge for a particular lawsuit or proceeding, especially due to some possible conflict of interest or prejudice.
- reflisp — (language) A small Lisp interpreter written in C++ by Bill Birch of Bull, UK. RefLisp has a built-in web server, Wiki, LISP server pages, SQL Databases, XML parser, MD5 hashing, regular expressions, reference counting and mark-sweep garbage collection. RefLisp has shallow-binding and dynamic scope with optional support for lexical scope, Common Lisp compatibility and for indefinite extent Scheme programs. RefLisp is distributed under the GPL.
- refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
- regloss — to gloss again or to give a new gloss to