7-letter words containing r, o, s
- apropos — Something which is apropos, or apropos of, a subject or event, is connected with it or relevant to it.
- arausio — a town in SE France: a small principality in the Middle Ages, the descendants of which formed the House of Orange. Pop: 27 989 (1999)
- arbores — Plural form of arbor.
- arbours — Plural form of arbour.
- archons — Plural form of archon Chief magistrates of ancient Athens.
- ardours — Plural form of ardour.
- arduous — Something that is arduous is difficult and tiring, and involves a lot of effort.
- arenose — sandy
- arenous — sandy
- areolas — a ring of color, as around the human nipple.
- areoles — Plural form of areola.
- argolis — a department and ancient region of Greece, in the NE Peloponnese. Capital: Nauplion. Pop: 102 392 (2001). Area: 2261 sq km (873 sq miles)
- ariosos — Plural form of arioso.
- ariosto — Ludovico (ludoˈviːko). 1474–1533, Italian poet, famous for his romantic epic Orlando Furioso (1516)
- aristos — Plural form of aristo.
- arkosic — related to arkose
- armours — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of armour.
- arousal — Arousal is the state of being sexually excited.
- aroused — in a state of sexual arousal
- arouser — Someone or something that arouses.
- arouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arouse.
- arroyos — Plural form of arroyo.
- arseno- — having arsenic as a constituent
- as from — (in expressions of time) from
- ashford — a market town in SE England, in central Kent. Pop: 58 936 (2001)
- ask for — to try to obtain by requesting
- asprout — in a springing or sprouting manner
- assorts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assort.
- assuror — a person who provides security for loss of life or property
- asthore — my treasure: a term of endearment
- astoria — a port in NW Oregon, near the mouth of the Columbia River: founded as a fur-trading post in 1811 by John Jacob Astor. Pop: 9660 (2003 est)
- astroid — a hypocycloid having four cusps
- astrol. — astrological
- atoners — Plural form of atoner.
- atropos — the one of the three Fates who severs the thread of life
- aurochs — a recently extinct member of the cattle tribe, Bos primigenius, that inhabited forests in N Africa, Europe, and SW Asia. It had long horns and is thought to be one of the ancestors of modern cattle
- auroras — Plural form of aurora.
- ausform — to temper or deform steel in order to make it stronger and more durable
- austro- — Austro- combines with adjectives indicating nationality to form adjectives which describe something connected with Austria and another country.
- authors — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- avarous — (obsolete) Avaricious.
- avernos — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- barotse — a member of a Negroid people of central Africa living chiefly in SW Zambia
- barrios — Justo Rufino [hoo-staw roo-fee-naw] /ˈhu stɔ ruˈfi nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–85, Guatemalan statesman: president of Guatemala 1873–85.
- barroso — José Manuel (ʒoˈse maˈnwɛl) born 1956, Portuguese politician; prime minister of Portugal (2002–04); president of the European Commission (2004–2014)
- barrows — Plural form of barrow.
- barstow — a city in S California.
- baryons — Plural form of baryon.
- bastrop — a city in N Louisiana.
- bedsore — Bedsores are sore places on a person's skin, caused by having to lie in bed for a long time without changing position.