6-letter words containing r, o, s
- troops — armed forces; soldiers
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trouse — close-fitting breeches worn in Ireland
- troyes — a river in N France, flowing NW to the Seine. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- tsoris — trouble, distress, woe, misery, etc.
- tudors — Antony, 1909–87, English choreographer and dancer.
- tussor — a tan silk from India. Compare Shantung (def 2a).
- unsort — 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.
- uprose — simple past tense of uprise.
- upsoar — to soar upwards
- urosis — a urinary disease
- virose — poisonous; foul-smelling
- whores — Plural form of whore.
- whorls — Plural form of whorl.
- winsor — Justin, 1831–97, U.S. librarian and historian.
- wooers — Plural form of wooer.
- worlds — Plural form of world.
- worsen — Make or become worse.
- worser — (nonstandard) worse.
- worses — bad or ill in a greater or higher degree; inferior in excellence, quality, or character.
- worsts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of worst.
- worths — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- wowser — an excessively puritanical person.
- wrongs — Plural form of wrong.
- zeroes — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
- zoster — Also called herpes zoster. Pathology. shingles.