7-letter words containing y, r
- rockery — rock garden.
- rockeye — a 500-pound (225-kg) U.S. cluster bomb, consisting of 247 two-pound (0.9 kg) fragmentation bombs, designed for use against tanks.
- roguery — roguish conduct; rascality.
- rokelay — a type of short cloak
- rollway — a place on which things are rolled or moved on rollers.
- romneya — a bushy type of poppy
- rookery — a breeding place or colony of gregarious birds or animals, as penguins and seals.
- ropeway — tramway (def 4).
- rosalyn — a feminine name: var. Rosalynn
- rosebay — any of several rhododendrons, as the great laurel of eastern North America or Rhododendron macrophyllum, of the west coast of North America.
- rossiya — Russian name of Russia.
- roughly — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roundly — in a round manner.
- roupily — in a roupy manner
- rowdily — a rough, disorderly person.
- royalet — a minor king
- royally — of or relating to a king, queen, or other sovereign: royal power; a royal palace.
- royalty — royal persons collectively.
- royster — roister.
- rubbery — like rubber; elastic; tough.
- rubbity — a pub
- rublyov — Andrey (ˈandre). ?1370–1430, Russian icon painter. His masterpiece is The Old Testament Trinity
- rudesby — a rude person
- rudyard — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “red” and “guarded.”.
- rufiyaa — rupee (def 3).
- rummily — in a rummy manner
- run dry — dry up
- runaway — a person who runs away; fugitive; deserter.
- russify — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- rya rug — a decorative hand-woven area rug or tapestry of Scandinavian origin, with a thick pile and, usually, an abstract design
- rybinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NNE of Moscow, on the Volga near the Rybinsk Reservoir. Also called Shcherbakov (1946–57)
- rydberg — a unit of energy used in atomic physics, equal to 13.606 electron-volts. Abbreviation: ry.
- ryeland — one of an English breed of white-faced sheep, yielding wool of high quality.
- ryepeck — a pole used in mooring a punt
- rysanek — Leonie [le-aw-nee] /ˈlɛ ɔˌni/ (Show IPA), 1926–98, Austrian soprano.
- ryswick — a town in SW Netherlands, near The Hague: Treaty of Ryswick 1697.
- sacrify — to offer a sacrifice or offer (something) as a sacrifice
- sarkozy — Nicolas (niːkɒˌlaː). born 1955, French centre-right politician, president of France from 2007 to 2012
- saroyan — William, 1908–81, U.S. dramatist, short-story writer, and novelist.
- satrapy — the province or jurisdiction of a satrap.
- satyral — a mythical beast in heraldry thought to have a lion's body, an antelope's tail and horns, and an old man's face
- satyric — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- satyrid — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- savoury — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- scaredy — someone who is easily frightened
- scarify — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- scarily — in a scary or frightening manner
- scenary — relating to theatre sets or scenery
- scenery — the general appearance of a place; the aggregate of features that give character to a landscape.
- scorify — to subject to scorification.