8-letter words containing o, r, a
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lonicera — Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- lorestan — Luristan.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- lorraine — Also, Lorrain. Claude (Claude Gelée) 1600–82, French painter.
- losartan — An angiotensin receptor antagonist that shows antihypertensive activity.
- lothario — (sometimes lowercase) a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women.
- love rat — Journalists sometimes use love rat to refer to a man who treats his partner in a cruel way, especially by having sexual relationships with other people.
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- low road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
- luchador — A person who competes in lucha libre wrestling.
- macaroni — small, tubular pasta prepared from wheat flour.
- macarons — Plural form of macaron.
- macaroon — a drop cookie made of egg whites, sugar, usually almond paste or coconut, and sometimes a little flour.
- maccaron — Alternative spelling of macaron.
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- macrotia — (medicine) Abnormal development of the auricle of the ear.
- macroura — Macruran.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- maestros — Plural form of maestro.
- maggiore — Lake, a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland. 83 sq. mi. (215 sq. km).
- mahzorim — Plural form of mahzor.
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- mailroom — Also, mail room. a room used for handling incoming and outgoing mail, as in a large organization.
- maindoor — a door giving access to a house from the street
- majorcan — a native or inhabitant of Majorca
- majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- majority — the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total (opposed to minority): the majority of the population.
- makarova — Natalia [nuh-tal-yuh,, -tahl-;; Russian nuh-tah-lyuh] /nəˈtæl yə,, -ˈtɑl-;; Russian nʌˈtɑ lyə/ (Show IPA), born 1940, Soviet ballerina, in the U.S. and England since 1970.
- make for — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- makeover — remodeling; renovation; restoration: The old house needs a complete makeover.
- makework — Alternative form of make-work.
- malaphor — (rare neologism) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.
- malaprop — Mrs. a character in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), noted for her misapplication of words.
- malaroma — an unpleasant smell
- malgrado — in spite of
- mallorca — Majorca.
- malodour — Alternative spelling of malodor.
- maltworm — a heavy drinker
- mamogram — Non-standard spelling of mammogram.
- man-hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- manarola — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- mandator — a person who gives a mandate.
- mandorla — A pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art.
- mangrove — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora, the species of which are mostly low trees growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for their interlacing above-ground adventitious roots.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- maniform — shaped like a hand.