5-letter words containing a, e, r
- ocrea — a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- opera — a plural of opus.
- orale — fanon (def 2).
- orate — Make a speech, especially pompously or at length.
- oread — Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- pacer — a person or thing that paces.
- padre — father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
- pager — beeper (def 3).
- paler — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paper — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- parae — a former copper coin of Turkey, the 40th part of a piaster.
- pared — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
- pareo — pareu (def 2).
- pares — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
- pareu — lavalava.
- parev — containing neither meat nor milk products and so fit for use with either meat or milk dishes
- parge — to coat or cover with plaster
- parle — talk; parley.
- parse — parser
- parve — pareve.
- pater — Latin. father of his country.
- paver — a person or thing that paves.
- pawer — the foot of an animal having claws.
- payer — the act of paying or being paid; payment.
- pearl — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pears — the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- peart — lively; brisk; cheerful.
- peary — Robert Edwin, 1856–1920, U.S. admiral and arctic explorer.
- perak — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 7980 sq. mi. (20,668 sq. km). Capital: Ipoh.
- petra — an ancient Arab kingdom of SW Asia, in the area of present-day Jordan, that became a Roman province in a.d. 106. Capital: Petra.
- phare — a beacon or watchtower to guide seafarers
- porae — a large edible sea fish, Nemadactylus douglasi, of New Zealand waters
- porea — Port Office Regional Employees Association
- prae- — pre-
- prase — a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- prate — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- presa — a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- preta — a wandering or disturbed ghost.
- quare — remarkable or strange
- rabes — Plural form of rabe.
- raced — a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- racer — a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
- races — Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
- rache — Alternative form of rach.
- radde — (obsolete) Past participle of read.
- radek — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1885–1939? Russian writer and politician.
- radge — (Geordie, Scottish) Violent or crazy.
- raffe — a triangular sail set in the manner of a square sail above the uppermost yard of a topsail schooner.
- raged — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- rager — a person or animal that rages