7-letter words containing o
- 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.
- aesopic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables: a story that points an Aesopian moral.
- aetolia — a mountainous region forming (with the region of Acarnania) a department of W central Greece, north of the Gulf of Patras: a powerful federal state in the 3rd century bc. Chief city: Missolonghi. Pop (with Acarnania): 219 092 (2001). Area: 5461 sq km (2108 sq miles)
- aetolus — son of Endymion and founder of Aetolia.
- 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.
- afl-cio — American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations: a federation of independent American trade unions formed by the union of these two groups in 1955
- aflower — (archaic, poetic) flowering, in bloom.
- afognak — an island off southern Alaska, in the Gulf of Alaska, N of Kodiak Island. 721 sq. mi. (1867 sq. km).
- aftmost — furthest aft; furthest towards the rear; rearmost
- agamoid — resembling an agama
- agamous — agamic
- agarose — a polysaccharide gelatinous substance usually extracted from agar, used mainly in agarose gel electrophoresis and in microbial cultures
- agathon — c450–c400 b.c, Greek poet and dramatist.
- agatoid — resembling agate
- age-old — An age-old story, tradition, or problem has existed for many generations or centuries.
- agelong — lasting a very long time
- agistor — a person who grazes cattle for money
- agitato — (to be performed) in an agitated manner
- agitpop — the use of pop music to promote political propaganda
- aglucon — an aglycon, especially one combined with glucose to form a glycoside.
- aglycon — a chemical compound formed from a glycoside when a hydrogen atom replaces a glycosyl group
- agnomen — the fourth name or second cognomen occasionally acquired by an ancient Roman
- agnosia — loss or diminution of the power to recognize familiar objects or people, usually as a result of brain damage
- agogics — Music. stress given to a note through prolonged duration.
- agonies — extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
- agonise — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- agonism — Competitive struggle (especially political).
- agonist — any muscle that is opposed in action by another muscle
- agonize — If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- agoroth — agorot
- agoutis — Plural form of agouti.
- 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.
- agynous — (botany) Without female organs; male.
- ai koan — (humour) /A-I koh'an/ One of a series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture. See also ha ha only serious, mu. In reading these, it is at least useful to know that Marvin Minsky, Gerald Sussman, and Drescher are AI researchers of note, that Tom Knight was one of the Lisp machine's principal designers, and that David Moon wrote much of Lisp Machine Lisp. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. Moon patiently told the student the following story: "One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understand how to make a better garbage collector... [Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.] "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe", Sussman replied. "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said. Minsky then shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened. "I would like to give you this personality test", said the outsider, "because I want you to be happy." Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the toaster, saying: "I wish the toaster to be happy, too."
- 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.