7-letter words containing o, r, a
- adorned — to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments: garlands of flowers adorning their hair.
- adorner — someone who adorns
- adreno- — adrenal glands
- adsorbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adsorb.
- advisor — one who gives advice.
- aerator — a person or thing that aerates; specif., a device for aerating a liquid, or a fumigating device
- aerobat — a person who performs spectacular or dangerous manoeuvres while in an aircraft
- aerobee — a U.S. two-stage, liquid-propellant sounding rocket developed in the 1940s that carried scientific instruments and occasionally biological specimens into the upper stratosphere.
- aerobes — Plural form of aerobe.
- aerobic — Aerobic activity exercises and strengthens your heart and lungs.
- aerobot — an unmanned aircraft used esp in space exploration
- aerobus — a type of monorail that is suspended by an overhead cable
- aerogel — a colloid that has a continuous solid phase containing dispersed gas
- aerogen — Any noble gas.
- aerosat — a communications satellite used in air-traffic control and maritime navigation
- aerosol — An aerosol is a small container in which a liquid such as paint or deodorant is kept under pressure. When you press a button, the liquid is forced out as a fine spray or foam.
- aerotow — to tow (an aircraft) through the air.
- affoord — Obsolete spelling of afford.
- afforce — to make stronger; consolidate; reinforce
- affords — to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect: The country can't afford another drought.
- affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
- aflower — (archaic, poetic) flowering, in bloom.
- agarose — a polysaccharide gelatinous substance usually extracted from agar, used mainly in agarose gel electrophoresis and in microbial cultures
- agistor — a person who grazes cattle for money
- agoroth — agorot
- agriope — Eurydice.
- aground — If a ship runs aground, it touches the ground in a shallow part of a river, lake, or the sea, and gets stuck.
- aileron — An aileron is a section on the back edge of the wing of an aircraft that can be raised or lowered in order to control the aircraft's movement.
- air log — Aeronautics. a device for recording the distance traveled by an aircraft, relative to the air through which it moves.
- air out — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- air-con — Air-con is the same as air conditioning.
- airboat — a light, flat-bottomed boat driven by a propeller revolving in the air
- airdrop — a delivery of supplies, troops, etc, from an aircraft by parachute
- airflow — The airflow around an object or vehicle is the way that the air flows around it.
- airfoil — a cross section of an aileron, wing, tailplane, or rotor blade
- airglow — the faint light from the upper atmosphere in the night sky, esp in low latitudes
- airhole — A hole provided for ventilation or breathing.
- airhose — a hose for conducting air under pressure, as one connected to an air pump, an air brake, or a scuba tank.
- airlock — An airlock is a small room that is used to move between areas which do not have the same air pressure, for example in a spacecraft or submarine.
- airport — An airport is a place where aircraft land and take off, which has buildings and facilities for passengers.
- airpost — the system of delivering mail by air; airmail
- airprox — a near collision between two or more aircraft
- airshot — aircheck
- airshow — An airshow is an event at which aeroplane pilots entertain the public by performing very skilful and complicated movements with the aircraft in the sky.
- airsoft — A modern combat sport in which participants eliminate their opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a compressed-air gun.
- airstop — a landing place for helicopters
- akiraho — a small New Zealand shrub, Olearia paniculata, with white flowers
- alamort — exhausted, half-dead
- alarcon — Pedro Antonio de (ˈpeðro anˈtonjo de). 1833–91, Spanish novelist and short-story writer, noted for his humorous sketches of rural life, esp in The Three-Cornered Hat (1874)
- alastor — an avenging spirit or demon