7-letter words containing r, o, c
- kerouac — Jack (Jean-Louis Lefris de Kérouac) 1922–69, U.S. novelist.
- knocker — a person or thing that knocks.
- koranic — Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
- kronach — Lucas ("the Elder") 1472–1553, German painter and graphic artist.
- lectors — Plural form of lector.
- leofric — died 1057, earl of Mercia c1030–57 (husband of Lady Godiva).
- lictors — Plural form of lictor.
- lo-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- locarno — a town in S Switzerland, on Lake Maggiore: Locarno Pact 1925.
- locater — a person who locates something.
- locator — a person who locates something.
- lockers — Plural form of locker.
- lockram — a rough-textured linen cloth.
- lockyer — Sir Joseph Norman, 1836–1920, English astronomer and author.
- locrian — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- locular — having one or more locules.
- lycoris — any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Lycoris, of the amaryllis family, native to eastern Asia, bearing clustered, variously colored flowers that appear after the leaves have faded and disappeared.
- lyricon — a musical instrument played by blowing into a mouthpiece, with the notes being modulated by a synthesizer
- macaron — a round, colored cookie consisting of a ganache or buttercream filling between two halves made from beaten egg whites mixed with sugar and ground almonds.
- machzor — machzors, Hebrew. mahzor.
- macrons — Plural form of macron.
- majorca — a Spanish island in the W Mediterranean: the largest of the Balearic Islands. 1405 sq. mi. (3640 sq. km). Capital: Palma.
- marcato — (of notes or chords in a musical score) strongly accented.
- marcion — a.d. c100–c160, Christian Gnostic.
- marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
- mcenroe — John Patrick, born 1959, U.S. tennis player.
- menorca — Minorca.
- mercado — a market.
- meropic — having the ability to speak
- microbe — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microhm — Alternative spelling of micro-ohm.
- microns — Plural form of micron.
- minorca — Spanish Menorca. one of the Balearic Islands, in the W Mediterranean. 271 sq. mi. (700 sq. km).
- mockers — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- monarch — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- moocher — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- morceau — piece; morsel.
- morchas — Plural form of morcha.
- morisco — Moorish.
- morocco — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
- morocoy — Alternative form of morrocoy.
- moronic — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- morphic — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- morrice — A morris dance.
- mortice — to secure with a mortise and tenon.
- motoric — motor (def 11).
- moucher — someone who eats hungrily or greedily
- murcott — a thin-skinned, juicy variety of tangerine.
- murdoch — (Dame) (Jean) Iris, 1919–99, British novelist and philosopher, born in Ireland.