4-letter words containing a, r
- asur — Assur.
- atar — attar (def 1).
- atry — lying to under a trysail in heavy weather; trying.
- attr — Abbreviation of attributive.
- auer — Karl (karl), Baron von Welsbach. 1858–1929, Austrian chemist who discovered the alloy of cerium and iron used for flints in cigarette lighters and invented the incandescent gas mantle
- aura — An aura is a quality or feeling that seems to surround a person or place or to come from them.
- avar — a member of a people of unknown origin in E Europe from the 6th to the early 9th century ad: crushed by Charlemagne around 800
- aver — If you aver that something is the case, you say very firmly that it is true.
- awre — Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
- awry — If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
- ayer — Sir Alfred Jules. 1910–89, English positivist philosopher, noted particularly for his antimetaphysical work Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)
- ayre — air1 (def 8d).
- badr — Battle of, Islam. a decisive battle in the early days of Islam (a.d. 624), in which Muhammad with about 300 men overcame a force of about 1000 Meccans.
- baer — Karl Ernst von [kahrl urnst von,, fuh n] /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn,, fən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.
- bahr — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1863–1934, Austrian playwright and critic.
- baor — British Army of the Rhine
- bar- — (before Jewish patronymic names) son of
- bara — Theda [thee-duh] /ˈθi də/ (Show IPA), (Theodosia Goodman) 1890–1955, U.S. actress.
- barb — A barb is a sharp curved point near the end of an arrow or fish-hook which makes it difficult to pull out.
- bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
- bare — If a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing.
- barf — If someone barfs, they vomit.
- bari — a port in SE Italy, capital of Apulia, on the Adriatic coast. Pop: 316 532 (2001)
- bark — When a dog barks, it makes a short, loud noise, once or several times.
- barm — the yeasty froth on fermenting malt liquors
- barn — A barn is a building on a farm in which crops or animal food can be kept.
- barp — a mound or cairn of stones
- bars — Plural form of bar.
- bart — Lionel. 1930–99, British composer and playwright. His musicals include Oliver! (1960)
- baur — a humorous anecdote
- bcar — British Civil Airworthiness Requirements
- bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
- boar — A boar or a wild boar is a wild pig.
- bora — a violent cold north wind blowing from the mountains to the E coast of the Adriatic, usually in winter
- brad — a small tapered nail having a small head that is either symmetrical or formed on one side only
- brae — a hill or hillside; slope
- brag — If you brag, you say in a very proud way that you have something or have done something.
- brak — (of water) brackish or salty
- bram — a male given name.
- bran — Bran is the outer skin of grain that is left when the grain has been used to make flour.
- brap — an exclamation used to imitate the sound of a burst of gunfire from an automatic weapon
- brat — If you call someone, especially a child, a brat, you mean that he or she behaves badly or annoys you.
- braw — fine or excellent, esp in appearance or dress
- bray — When a donkey brays, it makes a loud harsh sound.
- brca — either of two genes (BRCA1 or BRCA2) that, if inherited in a mutated form, may predispose some carriers to develop breast or ovarian cancer.
- brea — a town in S California.
- cair — (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
- cara — a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- carb — Carbs are foods such as potatoes, pasta, and bread, that contain a lot of carbohydrate.
- card — A card is a piece of stiff paper or thin cardboard on which something is written or printed.