6-letter words containing r, o, s
- sopher — scribe1 (def 3).
- sorage — the first year in hawk's life
- sorata — Mount, a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes, near Lake Titicaca: two peaks, Ancohuma, 21,490 feet (6550 meters), and Illampu, 21,276 feet (6485 meters).
- sorbed — to gather on a surface either by absorption, adsorption, or a combination of the two processes.
- sorbet — sherbet (defs 1, 3).
- sorbic — a European tree, Sorbus domestica.
- sorbol — sorbitol.
- sorbus — a rowan or related tree
- sordes — dark incrustations on the lips and teeth of patients with prolonged fever
- sordid — morally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods.
- sordor — sordidness
- sorely — in a painful manner.
- sorest — physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm.
- sorgho — sorgo.
- soring — the practice of making the front feet of a show horse sore, as by bruising or blistering, so as to force it to take high, exaggerated steps in exhibitions
- sorner — a person who sorns
- sorrel — any of various plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, having edible acid leaves used in salads, sauces, etc.
- sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sortal — a concept, grasp of which includes knowledge of criteria of individuation and reidentification, such as dog or concerto, but not flesh or music
- sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
- sorter — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- sortes — divination by opening a book, esp the Bible, at random
- sortie — a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- souari — a S American tree of the genus Caryocar
- soucar — a Hindu banker.
- souper — a person dispensing soup in the name of charity
- source — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- soured — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- sourly — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- sowcar — a Hindu banker.
- spinor — a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- spiro- — indicating breath or respiration
- splore — a frolic; revel; carousal.
- sporal — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spores — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sporo- — (in botany) spore
- sports — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sporty — flashy; showy.
- sproat — a fishhook having a circular bend.
- sprout — to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
- stator — Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine. Compare rotor (def 1).
- stereo — stereoscopic photography.
- sterno — inflammable hydrocarbon jelly in a small can, used for cooking
- sterol — any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- stoner — Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- stored — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.