7-letter words containing o, r, n
- rhondda — a city in Mid Glamorgan, in S Wales.
- ribbons — ragged strips or shreds
- ribston — a variety of winter apple, full name ribston pippin apple, grown first in Normandy and imported to Yorkshire
- rigodon — a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter.
- rioting — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- ripieno — tutti (defs 3, 4).
- roading — the building of roads
- roadman — a labourer who repairs roads
- roaming — to walk, go, or travel without a fixed purpose or direction; ramble; wander; rove: to roam about the world.
- roanoke — a city in SW Virginia.
- roaring — a loud, deep cry or howl, as of an animal or a person: the roar of a lion.
- robbing — to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
- robbins — Frederick C(hapman) 1916–2003, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1954.
- robeson — Paul, 1898–1976, U.S. singer and actor.
- robinia — any tree of the leguminous genus Robinia, esp the locust tree
- rock on — expressing approval
- rocking — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
- rockoon — a rocket launched from a balloon at a high altitude.
- rod-man — a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- rodding — a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- rodents — belonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers, etc.
- roiling — to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- rolfing — to vomit.
- roll in — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roll on — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roll-on — packaged in a tubelike container one end of which is equipped with a rotating ball that dispenses and spreads the liquid content directly.
- rolland — Romain [raw-man] /rɔˈmɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, French novelist, music critic, and dramatist: Nobel prize 1915.
- rolling — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
- rollins — Theodore Walter ("Sonny") born 1930, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
- romagna — a former province of the Papal States, in NE Italy. Capital: Ravenna.
- romaine — Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- romains — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- romance — Music. a short, simple melody, vocal or instrumental, of tender character.
- romanes — Romany; the language of the Gypsies
- romania — Romanian name of Romania.
- romanic — derived from the Romans.
- romanov — a member of the imperial dynasty of Russia that ruled from 1613 to 1917.
- romansh — a group of three Rhaeto-Romanic dialects spoken in E Switzerland. Compare Ladin (def 2).
- romanus — died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- romanza — a short instrumental piece of song-like character
- romaunt — a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- romneya — a bushy type of poppy
- rondeau — Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
- rondino — a short rondo
- rondure — a circle or sphere.
- rongeur — a strongly constructed instrument with a sharp-edged, scoop-shaped tip, used for gouging out bone.
- ronquil — any of several percoid fishes of the family Bathymasteridae, ranging along the Pacific coast of North America.
- ronsard — Pierre de [pyer duh] /pyɛr də/ (Show IPA), 1524–85, French poet.
- rontgen — Julius [yoo-lee-uh s] /ˈyu li əs/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer; born in Germany.
- roofing — the act of covering with a roof.