7-letter words containing r, i, o
- caloric — Caloric means relating to calories.
- calorie — Calories are units used to measure the energy value of food. People who are on diets try to eat food that does not contain many calories.
- caproic — Of, pertaining to, or derived from caproic acid.
- cardio- — heart
- caribou — A caribou is a large north American deer.
- caricom — Caribbean Community and Common Market
- carioca — a Brazilian dance similar to the samba
- cariole — a small open two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle
- carious — (of teeth or bone) affected with caries; decayed
- carotid — either one of the two principal arteries that supply blood to the head and neck
- carotin — carotene.
- carrion — Carrion is the decaying flesh of dead animals.
- cerosin — (organic compound) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane.
- cerotic — designating or of either of two fatty acids, C26H52O2 or C27H54O2, esters of which are found in beeswax and other waxes and oils
- chariot — In ancient times, chariots were fast-moving vehicles with two wheels that were pulled by horses.
- cheerio — People sometimes say 'Cheerio' as a way of saying goodbye.
- cheiro- — chiro-
- cheiron — Classical Mythology. a wise and beneficent centaur, teacher of Achilles, Asclepius, and others.
- chi-rho — the Christian monogram ( ☧ ) made from the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ.
- chicory — Chicory is a plant with crunchy bitter-tasting leaves. It is eaten in salads, and its roots are sometimes used instead of coffee.
- chirico — Giorgio de (ˈdʒordʒo de). 1888–1978, Italian artist born in Greece: profoundly influenced the surrealist movement
- chloric — of or containing chlorine in the pentavalent state
- chlorid — Archaic form of chloride.
- chlorin — (organic compound) A large heterocyclic aromatic ring consisting, at the core, of three pyrroles and one pyrroline coupled through four methine linkages.
- choicer — Comparative form of choice.
- choreic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chorial — Embryology. the outermost of the extraembryonic membranes of land vertebrates, contributing to the formation of the placenta in the placental mammals.
- chorine — a female dancer who is part of a chorus line
- choring — Present participle of chore.
- chorion — the outer of two membranes that form a sac around the embryonic reptile, bird, or mammal: contributes to the placenta in mammals
- choriso — chorizo.
- chorist — a person who sings in a choir or a chorus
- chorizo — a kind of highly seasoned pork sausage of Spain or Mexico
- chorogi — Chinese artichoke.
- choroid — resembling the chorion, esp in being vascular
- chorrie — a dilapidated old car
- chrisom — a white robe put on an infant at baptism and formerly used as a burial shroud if the infant died soon afterwards
- christo — full name Christo Javacheff. born 1935, US artist, born in Bulgaria; best known for works in which he wraps buildings, monuments, or natural features in canvas or plastic
- chromic — of or containing chromium in the trivalent state
- chronic — A chronic illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute.
- chronid — (zoology) Any member of the Chronidae.
- ciboria — Plural form of ciborium.
- cirebon — a port in S central Indonesia, on N Java on the Java Sea: scene of the signing of the Tjirebon Agreement of Indonesian independence (1946) by the Netherlands. Pop: 272 263 (2000)
- cirrose — characteristic of cirrus clouds
- cirrous — having a cirrus or cirri.
- cirsoid — resembling a varix
- cistron — the section of a chromosome that encodes a single polypeptide chain
- citator — a legal publication listing cases and statutes, their history and current status
- citrons — Plural form of citron.
- clarino — of or relating to a high passage for the trumpet in 18th-century music