7-letter words containing o, r
- arouser — Someone or something that arouses.
- arouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arouse.
- arriero — a mule driver
- arrowed — having an arrow pattern or wearing clothing with an arrow pattern
- arroyos — Plural form of arroyo.
- arseno- — having arsenic as a constituent
- artform — Alternative spelling of art form.
- arthro- — indicating a joint
- artwork — Artwork is drawings and photographs that are prepared in order to be included in something such as a book or advertisement.
- as from — (in expressions of time) from
- ashford — a market town in SE England, in central Kent. Pop: 58 936 (2001)
- ask for — to try to obtain by requesting
- asprout — in a springing or sprouting manner
- assorts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assort.
- assuror — a person who provides security for loss of life or property
- asthore — my treasure: a term of endearment
- astoria — a port in NW Oregon, near the mouth of the Columbia River: founded as a fur-trading post in 1811 by John Jacob Astor. Pop: 9660 (2003 est)
- astroid — a hypocycloid having four cusps
- astrol. — astrological
- at work — If someone is at work they are doing their job or are busy doing a particular activity.
- athanor — an alchemist's oven or furnace that continuously supplies its own fuel and thereby sustains an unchanging temperature
- atoners — Plural form of atoner.
- atrophy — If a muscle or other part of the body atrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness.
- atropos — the one of the three Fates who severs the thread of life
- attorny — (obsolete, or, proscribed) alternative spelling of attorney.
- auditor — An auditor is an accountant who officially examines the accounts of organizations.
- aureola — a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
- aureole — (esp in paintings of Christian saints and the deity) a border of light or radiance enveloping the head or sometimes the whole of a figure represented as holy
- aurochs — a recently extinct member of the cattle tribe, Bos primigenius, that inhabited forests in N Africa, Europe, and SW Asia. It had long horns and is thought to be one of the ancestors of modern cattle
- aurorae — the ancient Roman goddess of the dawn. Compare Eos.
- auroral — of or like the dawn.
- auroras — Plural form of aurora.
- ausform — to temper or deform steel in order to make it stronger and more durable
- austro- — Austro- combines with adjectives indicating nationality to form adjectives which describe something connected with Austria and another country.
- authors — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- authour — Obsolete spelling of author.
- autocar — any kind of motor car
- autogrp — AUTOmated GRouPing system
- autorun — (computing) Any feature that runs a program, etc. automatically.
- avarous — (obsolete) Avaricious.
- avernos — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- aveyron — a department of S France in Midi-Pyrénées region. Capital: Rodez. Pop: 266 940 (2003 est). Area: 8771 sq km (3421 sq miles)
- aviator — An aviator is a pilot of a plane, especially in the early days of flying.
- aviform — shaped like a bird
- avodire — a yellow hardwood from an African tree
- avoider — to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger.
- awlwort — a small stemless aquatic plant, Subularia aquatica, of the N hemisphere, having slender sharp-pointed leaves and minute, often submerged, white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- axelrod — Julius. 1912–2004, US neuropharmacologist, renowned for his work on catecholamines. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (with von Euler and Bernard Katz) 1970
- aykroyd — Dan. born 1952, Canadian film actor and screenwriter, best known for the television show Saturday Night Live (1975–80) and the films The Blues Brothers (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- baconer — a pig that weighs between 83 and 101 kg, from which bacon is cut