7-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- naibour — Obsolete form of neighbour.
- neibour — Obsolete form of neighbour.
- nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- neuroid — either of the halves of a neural arch
- neurol. — neurology
- neuroma — a tumor formed of nerve tissue.
- neurone — Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.
- neurons — Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.
- neutron — an elementary particle having no charge, mass slightly greater than that of a proton, and spin of ½: a constituent of the nuclei of all atoms except those of hydrogen. Symbol: n.
- nitrous — pertaining to compounds obtained from niter, usually containing less oxygen than the corresponding nitric compounds.
- nocturn — the office of matins, consisting of nine psalms and either three or nine lessons.
- nodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- nondrug — not related to or involving the use of drugs
- nonjury — a trial without a jury
- nonuser — a person who does not use or partake of something, as drugs or alcoholic beverages.
- noricum — an ancient Roman province in central Europe, roughly corresponding to the part of Austria south of the Danube.
- nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- nothura — Any member of the genus Nothura of birds in the tinamou family.
- nourice — a nurse.
- nourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- on tour — travelling from place to place
- onerous — burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties.
- Öresund — strait between Sweden and the Danish island of Zealand: c. 80 mi (129 km) long
- organum — an organon.
- orotund — (of the voice or speech) characterized by strength, fullness, richness, and clearness.
- ouranos — Uranus (def 2).
- outburn — (intransitive) To burn away; be consumed by fire.
- outearn — to earn more than
- outgrin — to exceed in grinning
- outrang — simple past tense of outring.
- outrank — to have a higher rank than: A major outranks a captain in the army.
- outring — to outdo in ringing; ring louder than.
- outruns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrun.
- outturn — a quantity produced; output.
- outworn — out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete: outworn ideas; outworn methods.
- overrun — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- pandour — History/Historical. a member of a local militia in Croatia, formed as a regiment in the Austrian army in the 18th century and noted for its ruthlessness and cruelty.
- pleuron — the lateral plate or plates of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- pounder — a person or thing having or associated with a weight or value of a pound or a specified number of pounds (often used in combination): He caught only one fish, but it was an eight-pounder.
- pour-on — Pour-on describes a technique in which a medicine is poured onto and absorbed through the skin.
- pouring — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- proneur — a flatterer
- pronoun — any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
- pronuke — pronuclear1 .
- purloin — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- rainout — a contest, performance, or the like, that has been rained out.
- rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- rantoul — a city in E Illinois.
- rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
- recount — to count again.