7-letter words containing o, a, r, s
- narcose — characterized by stupor; stuporous.
- narrows — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- nidaros — former name of Trondheim.
- normals — Plural form of normal.
- normans — Plural form of norman.
- norstad — Lauris [lawr-is,, lohr-] /ˈlɔr ɪs,, ˈloʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1907–1988, U.S. Air Force general: Supreme Allied Commander of NATO 1956–63.
- oarfish — any long, ribbon-shaped, silvery fish of the genus Regalecus, of deep tropical waters, having a red dorsal fin along the spine that rises to a crest, and reaching a length of 30 feet (9 meters).
- oarsman — a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- oarsmen — a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- oastler — Richard. 1789–1861, British social reformer; he campaigned against child labour and helped achieve the ten-hour day (1847)
- oculars — Plural form of ocular.
- olestra — a synthetic oil used as a substitute for dietary fat: not digested or absorbed by the human body.
- onagers — Plural form of onager.
- onsager — Lars, 1903–76, U.S. chemist, born in Norway: Nobel prize 1968.
- onwards — toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
- oraches — Plural form of orache.
- 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.
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- oralist — an advocate of oralism.
- oranges — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- orantes — orant.
- orators — Plural form of orator.
- ordains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ordain.
- ordeals — Plural form of ordeal.
- oreades — Plural form of oread.
- orgasms — Plural form of orgasm.
- orgasum — Misspelling of orgasm.
- orgiast — One who celebrates orgies.
- orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
- oropesa — a float used in minesweeping
- orphans — Plural form of orphan.
- oscular — pertaining to an osculum.
- osirian — the king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set): usually depicted as a man, partly wrapped as a mummy, having a beard and wearing the atef-crown.
- osmolar — Of or pertaining to osmolarity.
- ossuary — a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.
- osteria — An Italian restaurant, typically a simple or inexpensive one.
- ostiary — Also called doorkeeper, porter. Roman Catholic Church. a member of the lowest-ranking of the four minor orders. the order itself. Compare acolyte (def 2), exorcist (def 2), lector (def 2).
- ostmark — (formerly) a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of East Germany: replaced by the Deutsche mark in 1990.
- ostraca — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- ostrava — a city in N Moravia, in the NE Czech Republic.
- ouranos — Uranus (def 2).
- ouraris — curare.
- outsoar — to soar beyond.
- ovaries — Anatomy, Zoology. the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop.
- oversad — sadder than necessary
- oversaw — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
- oversea — over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.
- parados — a bank of earth built behind a trench or military emplacement to protect soldiers from a surprise attack from the rear.
- parasol — a lightweight umbrella used, especially by women, as a sunshade.
- parison — a partially shaped mass of molten glass.