7-letter words containing r, a
- airlane — Alternative spelling of air lane.
- airless — If a place is airless, there is no fresh air in it.
- airlift — An airlift is an operation to move people, troops, or goods by air, especially in a war or when land routes are closed.
- airlike — resembling air
- airline — An airline is a company which provides regular services carrying people or goods in aeroplanes.
- 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.
- airmada — a large fleet or flight of airplanes assigned to a specific mission: shipping lanes guarded by a giant airmada overhead.
- airmail — Airmail is the system of sending letters, parcels, and goods by air.
- airpack — an apparatus consisting of a face mask connected to a portable air supply, as an air tank that can be strapped to one's back, used especially by firefighters and search teams in areas of smoke, poisonous fumes, intense heat, etc.
- airpark — a small airport often near a business or residential area
- airpipe — an airhose connecting the mouthpiece of scuba diving equipment to its air supply.
- airplay — The airplay which a piece of popular music receives is the number of times it is played on the radio.
- 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
- airshed — a region sharing a common flow of air, which may become uniformly polluted and stagnant
- airship — An airship is an aircraft that consists of a large balloon which is filled with gas and is powered by an engine. It has a section underneath for passengers.
- 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.
- airsick — If you are airsick when you are traveling on an aircraft, you experience nausea as a result of the aircraft's motion.
- airside — the part of an airport nearest the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, etc
- 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
- airthed — a direction.
- airtime — the time allocated to a particular programme, item, topic, or type of material on radio or television
- airting — a direction.
- airward — upwards; towards the air
- airwash — to cool (a roof or the like) with a current of air.
- airwave — a channel for broadcasting radio or television signals
- airways — The passage by which air reaches a person's lungs.
- airwise — having skill in flying
- aj, sir — Sir A(lfred) J(ules) 1910–1989, English philosopher, teacher, and author.
- ajarred — (rare, perhaps nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of ajar.
- akhisar — a town in W Turkey, NE of Izmir.
- akiraho — a small New Zealand shrub, Olearia paniculata, with white flowers
- akrasia — weakness of will; acting in a way contrary to one's sincerely held moral values
- al marj — an ancient town in N Libya: founded in about 550 bc Pop: 121 000 (2005 est)
- 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)
- alarmed — If someone is alarmed, they feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- alarmer — One who alarms; one who sounds the alarm.
- alarums — Plural form of alarum.
- alastor — an avenging spirit or demon
- albergo — (in Italy) a corporation of noble families typically formed to enable the success of business ventures
- alberta — a province of W Canada: mostly prairie, with the Rocky Mountains in the southwest. Capital: Edmonton. Pop: 3 645 257 (2011 est). Area: 661 188 sq km (255 285 sq miles)
- alberti — Leon Battista (leˈɔn batˈtista). 1404–72, Italian Renaissance architect, painter, writer, and musician; among his architectural designs are the façades of Sta. Maria Novella at Florence and S. Francesco at Rimini
- alborak — the white horse that Muhammad rode to heaven.
- alcazar — any of various palaces or fortresses built in Spain by the Moors
- alcoran — the Koran
- alcorza — a Spanish sweet