7-letter words containing r
- -vorous — feeding on or devouring
- -worded — expressed in the way specified
- -worker — a person who works in a (specified) industry or place or with (specified) materials or equipment
- -worthy — -worthy can be added to words to form adjectives which indicate that someone or something deserves a particular thing or action. For example, if a remark or person is quote-worthy, they are worth quoting.
- -yarder — something that is a specified number of yards long or high
- 51forth — (language) A subroutine-threaded Forth for the 8051 by Scott Gehmlich. It comes with source and documentation.
- @-party — (event, history) /at'par-tee/ (Or "@-sign party") An antiquated term for a gathering of hackers at a science-fiction convention (especially the annual Worldcon) to which only people who had an electronic mail address were admitted. The term refers to the commercial at symbol, "@", in an e-mail address and dates back to the era when having an e-mail address was a distinguishing characteristic of the select few who worked with computers. Compare boink.
- a tergo — at or toward the back; from behind; in the rear.
- a terre — on the ground.
- a throw — If things cost a particular amount of money a throw, they cost that amount each.
- a treat — If you say, for example, that something looks or works a treat, you mean that it looks very good or works very well.
- a-frame — (of a house) constructed with an A-shaped elevation
- aalborg — a city and port in Denmark, in N Jutland. Pop: 121 549 (2004 est)
- aaronic — of or relating to Aaron, his family, or the priestly dynasty initiated by him
- abactor — a cattle thief
- abature — the trail of trampled grass left by a hunted stag
- abbrev. — abbreviation
- abelard — Peter. French name Pierre Abélard. 1079–1142, French scholastic philosopher and theologian whose works include Historia Calamitatum and Sic et Non (1121). His love for Héloïse is recorded in their correspondence
- aberfan — a former coal-mining village in S Wales, in Merthyr Tydfil county borough: scene of a disaster in 1966 when a slag heap collapsed onto part of the village killing 144 people (including 116 children)
- abermud — (games) The first popular open source MUD. The first version of AberMUD, named after Aberystwyth, UK, was written in B by Alan Cox, Richard Acott, Jim Finnis, and Leon Thrane, at University of Wales, Aberystwyth for an old Honeywell mainframe and opened in 1987. The gameplay was heavily influenced by MUD1, written by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle, which Alan Cox had played at the University of Essex. In late 1988, Alan Cox ported AberMUD to C so it could run under UNIX on Southampton University's Maths machines. This version was named AberMUD2. Various other versions followed.
- abetter — a person who abets.
- abettor — a person who abets.
- abfarad — the cgs unit of capacitance in the electromagnetic system; the capacitance of a capacitor having a charge of 1 abcoulomb and a potential difference of 1 abvolt between its conductors: equivalent to 109 farads
- abhenry — the cgs unit of inductance in the electromagnetic system; the inductance that results when a rate of change of current of 1 abampere per second generates an induced emf of 1 abvolt: equivalent to 10–9 henry
- abhored — Misspelling of abhorred.
- abjured — Simple past tense and past participle of abjure.
- abjurer — One who abjures. (late 18th century).
- ablator — the heat shield of a space vehicle, which melts or wears away during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere
- aborded — Simple past tense and past participle of abord.
- aborted — Carry out or undergo the abortion of (a fetus).
- abortee — a fetus that has been aborted
- aborter — a woman who is having or has had an abortion
- abortus — an aborted human fetus, esp one that is less than 12 weeks old or weighs less than 17 oz
- aboukir — a village of N Egypt, in the Nile River delta: Battle of the Nile near here (1798).
- abraded — Simple past tense and past participle of abrade.
- abrader — Something that abrades; a tool or machine for abrading. (First attested in the late 19th century.).
- abrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abrade.
- abraham — the first of the patriarchs, the father of Isaac and the founder of the Hebrew people (Genesis 11–25)
- abrased — Simple past tense and past participle of abrase.
- abraser — a machine for testing the abrasion resistance of a material.
- abraxas — an ancient charm composed of Greek letters: originally believed to have magical powers and inscribed on amulets, etc, but from the second century ad personified by Gnostics as a deity, the source of divine emanations
- abrazos — Plural form of abrazo.
- abreact — to alleviate (emotional tension) through abreaction
- abreast — If people or things walk or move abreast, they are next to each other, side by side, and facing in the same direction.
- abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
- abroach — (of a cask, barrel, etc) tapped; broached
- abrooke — to bear or tolerate
- abrosia — the practice of refraining from eating
- abruzzi — a region of S central Italy, between the Apennines and the Adriatic. Capital: Aquila. Pop: 1 273 284 (2003 est). Area: 10 794 sq km (4210 sq miles)
- absorbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absorb.