5-letter words containing a, e, r
- laxer — Comparative form of lax.
- layer — protocol layer
- lazer — Misspelling of laser.
- learn — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
- lears — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- leary — leery1 .
- lehar — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1870–1948, Hungarian composer of operettas.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- lerna — a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- macer — macebearer.
- madre — mother1 .
- maera — Hecuba, after being changed into a dog for blinding Polymestor.
- maerl — an accumulation of red coralline algae
- maire — a tall native New Zealand tree, olea cunninghami, with dark brown wood
- maker — a person or thing that makes.
- marae — (archaic) a Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure.
- mares — Plural form of mare.
- marge — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- marie — (Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- marke — Obsolete spelling of mark.
- marne — a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- marse — (used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- maser — a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- mater — British Informal. mother1 .
- maxer — maximum.
- mayer — Julius Robert von [jool-yuh s rob-ert von;; German yoo-lee-oo s roh-bert fuh n] /ˈdʒul yəs ˈrɒb ərt vɒn;; German ˈyu li ʊs ˈroʊ bɛrt fən/ (Show IPA), 1814–78, German physicist.
- mazer — a large metal drinking bowl or cup, formerly of wood.
- mcrae — Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- mears — a boundary or boundary marker.
- medar — Alternative form of mether.
- merca — a city in S Somalia.
- metra — (medicine) The uterus.
- mewar — Udaipur (def 2).
- morae — the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- morea — Peloponnesus.
- nacre — mother-of-pearl.
- nader — Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- naker — A kettledrum.
- namer — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- nares — The nostrils.
- narew — a river in NE Poland, flowing S and SW into the Bug River: battle 1915. 290 miles (465 km) long.
- narre — nearer, closer
- near- — nearly; almost
- neare — Obsolete spelling of near.
- nears — close; to a point or place not far away: Come near so I won't have to shout.
- neral — a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- nerva — Marcus Cocceius [kok-see-yuh s] /kɒkˈsi yəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 32?–98, emperor of Rome 96–98.
- newar — a member of a Mongoloid people of Nepal.
- oared — furnished with oars.
- oater — a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.