7-letter words containing o, r, s, i
- milords — Plural form of milord.
- mirasol — A variety of chili; when dried, the chilis are called guajillos.
- mirrors — Plural form of mirror.
- misborn — (now rare) Born prematurely; abortive.
- misdoer — Person who commits a misdeed, offender.
- misform — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- misgrow — (ambitransitive) To grow incorrectly or amiss.
- missort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- misword — to word incorrectly.
- moister — moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- moorish — of or relating to the Moors, a Muslim people of NW Africa.
- moreish — (informal, of food) Causing one to want to have more.
- morisco — Moorish.
- morison — Samuel Eliot, 1887–1976, U.S. historian.
- morisot — Berthe [bert] /bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1841–95, French Impressionist painter.
- mortise — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- mossier — Comparative form of mossy.
- nidaros — former name of Trondheim.
- nimrods — Plural form of nimrod.
- nitroso — (especially of organic compounds) containing the nitroso group; nitrosyl.
- nitrous — pertaining to compounds obtained from niter, usually containing less oxygen than the corresponding nitric compounds.
- no risk — an expression of assent
- noirish — (film, arts) Having the character of film noir.
- noisier — making much noise: noisy children.
- norilsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Asia, near the mouth of the Yenisei River.
- norrish — Ronald George Wreyford [rey-ferd] /ˈreɪ fərd/ (Show IPA), 1897–1978, British chemist: Nobel prize 1967.
- nostril — either of the two external openings of the nose.
- nourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- 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).
- ogreish — a monstrously ugly, cruel, or barbarous person.
- ogreism — an occurrence of behaviour characteristic of an ogre
- 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.
- orbison — Roy, 1936–88, U.S. rock and roll singer and songwriter.
- orchids — Plural form of orchid.
- orchils — Plural form of orchil.
- ordains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ordain.
- ordines — Roman Catholic Church. a booklet containing short and abbreviated directions for the contents of the office and Mass of each day in the year.
- orgiast — One who celebrates orgies.
- orients — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of orient.
- origins — Plural form of origin.
- orioles — Plural form of oriole.
- orisons — Plural form of orison.
- orosius — Paulus [paw-luh s] /ˈpɔ ləs/ (Show IPA), flourished 5th century a.d, Spanish theologian and historian.
- orphism — the religious or philosophical system of the Orphic school.
- orpines — Plural form of orpine.
- osiered — covered with osiers
- 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.
- 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).