7-letter words containing r, o, s
- sobered — not intoxicated or drunk.
- soberly — not intoxicated or drunk.
- socager — a tenant holding land by socage; sokeman.
- socotra — an island in the Indian Ocean, S of Arabia: a part of the Republic of Yemen. 1382 sq. mi. (3579 sq. km).
- sofrito — soffritto.
- soilure — a stain.
- sojourn — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- sokotra — an island in the Indian Ocean, S of Arabia: a part of the Republic of Yemen. 1382 sq. mi. (3579 sq. km).
- solaris — (operating system) Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s version of the Unix operating system. As well as the core operating system, Solaris inludes networking software, the Java Virtual Machine, the CDE/Desktop that includes an X11-based windowing environment and graphical user interface. Sun claim that Solaris is not just an operating system but an "operating environment". Solaris 1.x was a retroactive (marketing?) name for SunOS 4.1.x (where x>=1). Solaris 2.x (which is the first version most people call "Solaris") includes SunOS5.x, which is an SVR4-derived Unix, OpenWindows 3.x, and tooltalk.
- soldier — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- soleure — French name of Solothurn.
- solider — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
- solunar — pertaining to or listing the rising and setting times of the sun and moon, phases of the moon, eclipses, etc.: The newspaper gives a solunar table each week for hunters and fishermen.
- soother — truth, reality, or fact.
- soprano — the uppermost part or voice.
- sorbate — a sorbed substance.
- sorbent — a surface that sorbs.
- sorbian — of or relating to the Wends or their language.
- sorbing — to gather on a surface either by absorption, adsorption, or a combination of the two processes.
- sorbite — a hexahydric alcohol
- sorbose — a ketohexose, C 6 H 1 2 O 6 , occurring in mountain ash and obtained industrially from sorbitol by bacterial oxidation: used in the synthesis of vitamin C.
- sorcery — the art, practices, or spells of a person who is supposed to exercise supernatural powers through the aid of evil spirits; black magic; witchery.
- sordino — mute (def 10).
- soredia — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- sorehon — an old Irish and Scottish feudal right
- sorghum — a cereal grass, Sorghum bicolor (or S. vulgare), having broad, cornlike leaves and a tall, pithy stem bearing the grain in a dense terminal cluster.
- sorites — a form of argument having several premises and one conclusion, capable of being resolved into a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is a premise of the next.
- soritic — a form of argument having several premises and one conclusion, capable of being resolved into a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is a premise of the next.
- soroban — a Japanese abacus of Chinese derivation.
- soroche — a type of altitude sickness
- sorokin — Pitirim Alexandrovitch [pi-ti-reem al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian pyi-tyi-ryeem uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /pɪ tɪˈrim ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian pyɪ tyɪˈryim ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1968, U.S. sociologist, born in Russia.
- sororal — of, relating to, or characteristic of a sister or sisters; sisterly.
- sorosis — a fleshy multiple fruit composed of many flowers, seed vessels, and receptacles consolidated, as in the pineapple and mulberry.
- sorrier — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- sorrily — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- sorrows — Sorrows are events or situations that cause deep sadness.
- sort of — 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.
- sorting — 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.
- sothern — E(dward) H(ugh) 1859–1933, U.S. actor, born in England: husband of Julia Marlowe.
- sounder — a person or thing that sounds depth, as of water.
- sourced — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sources — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- souring — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- sourock — a Scots name for the sorrel plant
- soursop — the large, dark-green, slightly acid, pulpy fruit of a small West Indian tree, Annona muricata, of the annona family.
- souther — a wind or storm from the south.
- soutter — a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- sparoid — resembling or pertaining to the porgy family, Sparidae.
- sparrow — any of numerous American finches of the family Emberizinae. Compare chipping sparrow, song sparrow.
- spector — Phil. born 1940, US record producer and songwriter, noted for the densely orchestrated "Wall of Sound" in his work with groups such as the Ronettes and the Crystals; convicted in 2009 for the second-degree murder (2003) of actress Lana Clarkson