7-letter words containing r, o, s
- risotto — a dish of rice cooked with broth and flavored with grated cheese and other ingredients.
- rissole — (of foods) browned in deep fat.
- roaster — roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- robbins — Frederick C(hapman) 1916–2003, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1954.
- roberts — Henry Martyn [mahr-tn] /ˈmɑr tn/ (Show IPA), 1837–1923, U.S. engineer and authority on parliamentary procedure: author of Robert's Rules of Order (1876, revised 1915).
- robeson — Paul, 1898–1976, U.S. singer and actor.
- robusta — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- rockies — Rocky Mountains.
- rodents — belonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers, etc.
- rodgers — a male given name, form of Roger.
- rodless — lacking a rod or rods
- rodster — an angler or fisherman
- roger's — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “fame” and “spear.”.
- roguish — pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
- roister — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- rollins — Theodore Walter ("Sonny") born 1930, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
- romains — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- romanes — Romany; the language of the Gypsies
- romansh — a group of three Rhaeto-Romanic dialects spoken in E Switzerland. Compare Ladin (def 2).
- romanus — died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- rompers — a person or thing that romps.
- rompish — given to romping; frolicsome.
- romulus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- ronsard — Pierre de [pyer duh] /pyɛr də/ (Show IPA), 1524–85, French poet.
- rooibos — an evergreen shrub of South Africa cultivated for tea leaves
- rookish — resembling a rook
- roomies — roommate.
- roosted — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rooster — the male of domestic fowl and certain game birds; cock.
- rosacea — a chronic form of acne affecting the nose, forehead, and cheeks, characterized by red pustular lesions.
- rosalia — scarlet fever
- rosalie — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning rose festival.
- rosalyn — a feminine name: var. Rosalynn
- rosanne — a female given name.
- rosario — a port in E Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- roscian — of, relating to, or involving acting.
- roscius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), c126–c62 b.c, Roman actor.
- roseate — tinged with rose; rosy: a roseate dawn.
- rosebay — any of several rhododendrons, as the great laurel of eastern North America or Rhododendron macrophyllum, of the west coast of North America.
- rosebed — a part of a garden where roses grow
- rosebud — the bud of a rose.
- rosehip — hip2 .
- rosella — any of several large, colorful parakeets of the genus Platycercus, of Australia.
- roselle — a city in NE New Jersey.
- roseola — a kind of rose-colored rash.
- rosetta — a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- rosette — a female given name.
- rosiner — a strong alcoholic drink
- rosolio — a cordial flavored with rose petals, cloves, cinnamon, or the like, popular in southern Europe.
- rossini — Gioacchino Antonio [jaw-ahk-kee-naw ahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌdʒɔ ɑkˈki nɔ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1792–1868, Italian composer.