7-letter words containing o, c, a, s
- nicolas — a masculine name
- nicosia — an island republic in the Mediterranean, S of Turkey: formerly a British colony; independent since 1960. 3572 sq. mi. (9250 sq. km). Capital: Nicosia.
- noncash — of or constituting financial sources other than cash: a noncash expense.
- nowcast — (meteorology) A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually of a few hours.
- o'casey — Sean [shawn,, shahn] /ʃɔn,, ʃɑn/ (Show IPA), 1880–1964, Irish playwright.
- oceanus — a Titan who was the son of Uranus and Gaea, the consort of Tethys, and the father of the river gods and Oceanids.
- octants — Plural form of octant.
- octapus — Misspelling of octopus.
- octaves — Plural form of octave.
- octavos — Plural form of octavo.
- octavus — eighth.
- oculars — Plural form of ocular.
- offcast — discarded or rejected; castoff: his offcast suits.
- oilcans — Plural form of oilcan.
- 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.
- osceola — 1804–38, U.S. Indian leader: chief of the Seminole tribe.
- oscheal — relating to or resembling the scrotum
- oscular — pertaining to an osculum.
- osmatic — of or relating to the sense of smell.
- 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.
- outcast — a falling out; quarrel.
- picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- poaches — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- podcast — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- racoons — Plural form of racoon.
- raucous — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- rosacea — a chronic form of acne affecting the nose, forehead, and cheeks, characterized by red pustular lesions.
- roscian — of, relating to, or involving acting.
- sacaton — a coarse grass, Sporobolus wrightii, of the southwestern US and Mexico, grown for hay and pasture
- salchow — a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
- sarcode — protoplasm, especially the semifluid content of a protozoan.
- sarcoid — a growth resembling a sarcoma.
- sarcoma — any of various malignant tumors composed of neoplastic cells resembling embryonic connective tissue.
- sarcous — consisting of or pertaining to flesh or skeletal muscle.
- saticon — a high-resolution television camera tube used when high definition is required
- scallop — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scapose — having scapes; consisting of a scape.
- scarron — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1610–60, French novelist, dramatist, and poet.
- scatoma — a tumorlike mass of feces in the colon or rectum.
- scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- scoriae — Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- scotoma — loss of vision in a part of the visual field; blind spot.
- screamo — a form of emo music typically featuring screaming vocals
- sea cow — any sirenian, as the manatee or dugong.
- seacock — a valve in the hull of a vessel for admitting outside water into some part of the hull, as a ballast tank.
- seconal — secobarbital