5-letter words containing a, e, r
- rebab — a Near Eastern fiddle having one to three strings and played with a bow.
- rebar — a steel bar or rod used to reinforce concrete.
- recap — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- recta — a plural of rectum.
- redan — a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- redia — a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- refal — Recursive Functional Algorithmic Language
- regal — of or relating to a king; royal: the regal power.
- regan — (in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters. Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- regma — a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- rehab — rehabilitation, especially a program or facility for treating persons addicted to drugs or alcohol or recovering from certain medical conditions: He's been sober since coming out of rehab. She checked into rehab after suffering a stroke.
- relax — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- relay — a series of persons relieving one another or taking turns; shift.
- reman — to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- remap — map again
- renal — of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- renan — Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1823–92, French philologist, historian, and critic.
- renay — a person who disowns an organization, country, or belief system
- renga — linked verse.
- repay — to pay back or refund, as money.
- reran — to run again.
- resat — past and past participle of resit
- resaw — to saw again.
- resay — to say again; repeat
- retag — to tag again
- retax — a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
- retia — a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- reval — former German name of Tallinn.
- rewax — to wax again
- rheda — (in ancient Rome) a four-wheeled traveling carriage.
- rieka — a seaport in W Croatia, on the Adriatic.
- rnase — ribonuclease.
- rueda — a Cuban round dance
- rugae — Usually, rugae. Biology, Anatomy. a wrinkle, fold, or ridge.
- saber — a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
- sabre — to strike, wound, or kill with a saber.
- safer — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- sager — a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- saker — a light field gun that is smaller than a demiculverin and fires a shot weighing 6 pounds (4.5 kg) or less.
- saner — free from mental derangement; having a sound, healthy mind: a sane person.
- saree — sari.
- sarge — sergeant.
- sarre — French name of Saar.
- saser — a device for amplifying ultrasound, working on a similar principle to a laser
- saver — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- sawer — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- sayer — to utter or pronounce; speak: What did you say? I said “Hello!”.
- scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- seare — dry and withered
- sears — a pivoted piece that holds the hammer at full cock or half cock in the firing mechanism of small arms.