7-letter words containing r, e, o
- armhole — The armholes of something such as a shirt or dress are the openings through which you put your arms, or the places where the sleeves are attached.
- armoire — a large cabinet, originally used for storing weapons
- armored — covered with armor or armor plate
- armorer — a person who made or repaired armor and arms
- aroused — in a state of sexual arousal
- 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
- arseno- — having arsenic as a constituent
- asthore — my treasure: a term of endearment
- atoners — Plural form of atoner.
- 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
- aurorae — the ancient Roman goddess of the dawn. Compare Eos.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
- baconer — a pig that weighs between 83 and 101 kg, from which bacon is cut
- bandore — a 16th-century plucked musical instrument resembling a lute but larger and fitted with seven pairs of metal strings
- barcode — a machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines of different widths printed on a package, which can be electronically scanned at a checkout to register the price of the goods and to activate computer stock-checking and reordering
- baronet — A baronet is a man who has been made a knight. When a baronet dies, the title is passed on to his son.
- baronne — baroness
- baroque — Baroque architecture and art is an elaborate style of architecture and art that was popular in Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
- barotse — a member of a Negroid people of central Africa living chiefly in SW Zambia
- battero — a heavy club
- bear on — to be relevant to; relate to
- becrowd — to crowd greatly with something
- bedcord — A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.
- bedford — a town in SE central England, in Bedfordshire, on the River Ouse; administrative centre of Bedford unitary authority. Pop: 82 488 (2001)
- bedform — (geology) One of a series of hollows and ripples formed in the bed of a river by the flow of water.
- bednorz — J(ohannes) Georg [yoh-hah-nuh s gey-awrk] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs ˈgeɪ ɔrk/ (Show IPA), born 1950, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1987.
- bedrock — The bedrock of something is the principles, ideas, or facts on which it is based.
- bedroll — A bedroll is a rolled-up sleeping bag or other form of bedding, which you can carry with you.
- bedroom — A bedroom is a room used for sleeping in.
- bedsore — Bedsores are sore places on a person's skin, caused by having to lie in bed for a long time without changing position.
- begored — smeared with a sticky substance
- begorra — an emphatic exclamation, regarded as a characteristic utterance of Irish people
- begroan — to groan at or about
- belabor — If you say that someone belabors the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way.
- belfort — a fortress town in E France: strategically situated in the Belfort Gap between the Vosges and the Jura mountains. Pop: 50 417 (1999)
- beograd — Belgrade
- beprose — to reduce to prose
- bergamo — a walled city in N Italy, in Lombardy. Pop: 113 143 (2001)
- bergson — Henri Louis (ɑ̃ri lwi). 1859–1941, French philosopher, who sought to bridge the gap between metaphysics and science. His main works are Memory and Matter (1896, trans. 1911) and Creative Evolution (1907, trans. 1911): Nobel prize for literature 1927
- berlioz — Hector (Louis) (ɛktɔr). 1803–69, French composer, regarded as a pioneer of modern orchestration. His works include the cantata La Damnation de Faust (1846), the operas Les Troyens (1856–59) and Béatrice et Bénédict (1860–62), the Symphonie fantastique (1830), and the oratorio L'Enfance du Christ (1854)
- bermejo — a river in Argentina, rising in the northwest and flowing southeast to the Paraguay River. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles)
- berobed — wearing a robe