7-letter words containing r, i, o
- clarion — a four-foot reed stop of trumpet quality on an organ
- cochair — to chair jointly
- cockier — Comparative form of cocky.
- coheirs — a joint heir.
- coimbra — a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)
- coinfer — to infer jointly
- cointer — to bury together
- colibri — a hummingbird
- collier — a coal miner
- comfier — comfortable.
- comorin — Capecape at the southernmost tip of India
- confirm — If something confirms what you believe, suspect, or fear, it shows that it is definitely true.
- conifer — Conifers are a group of trees and shrubs, for example pine trees and fir trees, that grow in cooler areas of the world. They have fruit called cones, and very thin leaves called needles which they do not normally lose in winter.
- conrail — a government-supported corporation that combined six bankrupt railroads to provide freight and commuter service in 17 states from Boston to St. Louis.
- copiers — Plural form of copier.
- coprime — (mathematics, of two or more positive integers) Having no positive integer factors in common, aside from 1.
- corbeil — a carved ornament in the form of a basket of fruit, flowers, etc
- corbina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- cordial — Cordial means friendly.
- cording — a type of corded material, esp when used as a decorative trimming
- cordite — Cordite is an explosive substance used in guns and bombs.
- coreign — to reign jointly
- corelli — Arcangelo (arˈkandʒelo). 1653–1713, Italian violinist and composer of sonatas and concerti grossi
- coremia — the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, consisting of a loosely bound bundle of conidiophores.
- corinne — a feminine name
- corinth — a port in S Greece, in the NE Peloponnese: the modern town is near the site of the ancient city, the largest and richest of the city-states after Athens. Pop (municipality): 36 991 (2001)
- corival — Alternative form of corrival.
- corixid — any heteropterous water bug of the vegetarian family Corixidae, typified by Corixa punctata, common in sluggish waters. The forelegs have become modified and are used in stridulation, as by the water singer (Micronecta poweri)
- corizza — Italian name of Korçë.
- corking — excellent
- corliss — George Henry, 1817–88, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- cormoid — similar to a corm
- cornice — A cornice is a strip of plaster, wood, or stone which goes along the top of a wall or building.
- cornier — pertaining to or affected with corns of the feet.
- cornify — (of soft tissue) to become converted into horn or hard tissue
- cornily — in a corny manner
- corning — Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- cornish — Cornish means belonging or relating to the English county of Cornwall.
- cornist — a person who plays the horn
- coronis — a symbol placed over a contracted syllable
- corrida — a public program in which a series of bullfights, usually six, are held
- corrido — a Mexican ballad or folksong about struggle against oppression and injustice.
- corries — Plural form of corrie.
- corsair — a pirate
- corsica — an island in the Mediterranean, west of N Italy: forms, with 43 islets, a region of France; mountainous; settled by Greeks in about 560 bc; sold by Genoa to France in 1768. Capital: Ajaccio. Pop: 265 999 (2003 est). Area: 8682 sq km (3367 sq miles)
- corsive — a corrosive drug
- cortile — (in Italy) a roofless internal courtyard
- cortina — the weblike part of certain mushrooms, which hangs from the edge of the pileus and consists of silky fibrils
- corvids — Plural form of corvid.
- corvina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California