7-letter words containing r
- actorly — of, relating to, or characteristic of an actor
- actress — An actress is a woman whose job is acting in plays or films.
- actuary — An actuary is a person who is employed by insurance companies to calculate how much they should charge their clients for insurance.
- adapter — a person or thing that adapts
- adaptor — An adaptor is a special device for connecting electrical equipment to a power supply, or for connecting different pieces of electrical or electronic equipment together.
- address — Your address is the number of the house, flat, or apartment and the name of the street and the town where you live or work.
- addrest — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of address.
- adducer — someone who adduces
- adharma — unrighteousness or wickedness
- adhered — to stay attached; stick fast; cleave; cling (usually followed by to): The mud adhered to his shoes.
- adherer — a person who adheres to practices or beliefs
- adheres — Stick fast to (a surface or substance).
- adjourn — If a meeting or trial is adjourned or if it adjourns, it is stopped for a short time.
- adjured — Simple past tense and past participle of adjure.
- adjures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjure.
- admiral — An admiral is a senior officer in a navy.
- admired — Simple past tense and past participle of admire.
- admirer — If you are an admirer of someone, you like and respect them or their work very much.
- admires — to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- adopter — person who adopts a child
- adoptor — Alternative form of adopter.
- adorant — (poetic) Adoring.
- adorate — To worship, to adore.
- adorers — Plural form of adorer.
- adoring — An adoring person is someone who loves and admires another person very much.
- adorned — to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments: garlands of flowers adorning their hair.
- adorner — someone who adorns
- adpress — to press together
- adrenal — on or near the kidneys
- adreno- — adrenal glands
- adsorbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adsorb.
- adulter — (obsolete) To commit adultery.
- adultry — Misspelling of adultery.
- adverbs — any member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, as modifiers of adjectives, other adverbs, or adverbial phrases, as very in very nice, much in much more impressive, and tomorrow in She'll write to you tomorrow. They relate to what they modify by indicating place (I promise to be there), time (Do your homework now!), manner (She sings beautifully), circumstance (He accidentally dropped the glass when the bell rang), degree (I'm very happy to see you), or cause (I draw, although badly). See also sentence adverb.
- adverse — Adverse decisions, conditions, or effects are unfavourable to you.
- adverts — Plural form of advert.
- adviser — An adviser is an expert whose job is to give advice to another person or to a group of people.
- advisor — one who gives advice.
- aelfric — ("Ælfric Grammaticus"; "Ælfric the Grammarian") a.d. c955–c1020, English abbot and writer.
- aerated — angry or agitated
- aerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aerate.
- aerator — a person or thing that aerates; specif., a device for aerating a liquid, or a fumigating device
- aerials — Plural form of aerial.
- aeriate — Archaic form of aerate.
- aeriest — ethereal; aerial.
- aerobat — a person who performs spectacular or dangerous manoeuvres while in an aircraft
- aerobee — a U.S. two-stage, liquid-propellant sounding rocket developed in the 1940s that carried scientific instruments and occasionally biological specimens into the upper stratosphere.
- aerobes — Plural form of aerobe.
- aerobic — Aerobic activity exercises and strengthens your heart and lungs.
- aerobot — an unmanned aircraft used esp in space exploration