7-letter words containing s, a, o
- opiates — Plural form of opiate.
- opposal — (archaic) opposition.
- oquassa — a small, dark-blue brook trout, Salvelinus oquassa, of Maine.
- oraches — Plural form of orache.
- oracles — (especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- oralist — an advocate of oralism.
- oranges — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- orantes — orant.
- orators — Plural form of orator.
- ordains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ordain.
- ordeals — Plural form of ordeal.
- oreades — Plural form of oread.
- orgasms — Plural form of orgasm.
- orgasum — Misspelling of orgasm.
- orgiast — One who celebrates orgies.
- orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
- oropesa — a float used in minesweeping
- orphans — Plural form of orphan.
- osceola — 1804–38, U.S. Indian leader: chief of the Seminole tribe.
- oscheal — relating to or resembling the scrotum
- oscular — pertaining to an osculum.
- osirian — the king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set): usually depicted as a man, partly wrapped as a mummy, having a beard and wearing the atef-crown.
- osman i — 1259–1326, Turkish sultan; founder of the Ottoman Empire
- osmanli — an Ottoman.
- osmatic — of or relating to the sense of smell.
- osmolal — relating to the concentration of a given solution
- osmolar — Of or pertaining to osmolarity.
- osmunda — any fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern.
- ossetia — a region in Caucasia: divided between North Ossetia of the Russian Federation and the South Ossetian Autonomous Region of the Georgian Republic.
- ossuary — a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.
- osteoma — a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- osteria — An Italian restaurant, typically a simple or inexpensive one.
- ostiary — Also called doorkeeper, porter. Roman Catholic Church. a member of the lowest-ranking of the four minor orders. the order itself. Compare acolyte (def 2), exorcist (def 2), lector (def 2).
- ostiate — characterized by having ostia
- ostmark — (formerly) a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of East Germany: replaced by the Deutsche mark in 1990.
- ostraca — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- ostrava — a city in N Moravia, in the NE Czech Republic.
- ostwald — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1853–1932, German chemist: Nobel prize 1909.
- ouranos — Uranus (def 2).
- ouraris — curare.
- outages — Plural form of outage.
- outcast — a falling out; quarrel.
- outfast — to fast longer than
- outlash — a sudden attack
- outlast — to endure or last longer than: The pyramids outlasted the civilization that built them.
- outlaws — Plural form of outlaw.
- outlays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outlay.
- outpass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- outsail — to outdo in sailing; sail farther, more skillfully, or faster than.