5-letter words containing a, r
- angor — extreme distress or mental anguish, usually of physical origin.
- angry — When you are angry, you feel strong dislike or impatience about something.
- anker — a unit of measurement of spirits or wine, used in various countries and formerly in England, where it was equivalent to gallons
- ansar — the first inhabitants of Medina to accept Islam.
- antlr — ANother Tool for Language Recognition
- antra — a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- antre — a cavern or cave
- anury — (medicine, archaic) anuria.
- aorta — The aorta is the main artery through which blood leaves your heart before it flows through the rest of your body.
- apart — When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other.
- apert — open, unconcealed
- apery — imitative behaviour; mimicry
- apgar — Virginia, 1909–74, U.S. physician: developed test to evaluate health of newborns.
- aport — on or towards the port side
- appar — Apparently.
- appro — (of a purchase) approval: on appro.
- apres — after
- april — April is the fourth month of the year in the Western calendar.
- apron — An apron is a piece of clothing that you put on over the front of your normal clothes and tie round your waist, especially when you are cooking, in order to prevent your clothes from getting dirty.
- apter — inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- apure — a river in W Venezuela, rising in the Andes and flowing east to the Orinoco. Length: about 676 km (420 miles)
- ara-a — an antiviral drug, C10H13N5O4H2O, that prevents DNA synthesis; used to treat certain herpes infections
- ara-c — a toxic synthetic nucleoside, C 9 H 13 N 3 O 5 , used as an immunosuppressive and cytotoxic agent in the treatment of certain leukemias.
- araba — an Asian carriage, wagon or cart that is drawn by horses or oxen
- araby — Arabia
- arage — (obsolete, transitive) To enrage.
- araki — A date liquor distilled illegally in Sudan.
- araks — river flowing from E Turkey along the S border of Armenia & Azerbaijan, into the Kura River and the Caspian Sea: c. 600 mi (966 km)
- arame — a dark brown or black seaweed, Eisenia bicyclis (or Ecklonia bicyclis), that is used in Japanese cuisine
- arany — János (ˈjaːnoʃ). 1817–82, Hungarian epic poet, ballad writer, and scholar
- arawn — the lord of Annwfn.
- araxa — a city in E Brazil.
- arber — Werner. born 1929, Swiss microbiologist, noted for his work on restriction enzymes. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1978
- arbil — Erbil.
- arbit — (India, colloquial) Strange, random or weird.
- arbor — An arbor is a shelter in a garden which is formed by leaves and stems of plants growing close together over a light framework.
- arbus — Diane, original name Diane Nemerov. 1923–71, US photographer, noted esp for her portraits of vagrants, dwarfs, transvestites, etc
- arcas — a son of Zeus and Callisto, the ancestor of the Arcadians who was set among the stars with his mother as the Little Bear and the Great Bear respectively.
- arced — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- arch- — Arch- combines with nouns referring to people to form new nouns that refer to people who are extreme examples of something. For example, your arch-rival is the rival you most want to beat.
- archy — a male given name, form of Archibald.
- arcid — (zoology) Any of the Arcidae; an ark shell.
- arcus — an arcus senilis
- ardeb — a unit of dry measure used in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries. In Egypt it is approximately equal to 0.195 cubic metres
- arden — John. (1930–2012) British dramatist and novelist. His plays include Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) and The Workhouse Donkey (1963); novels include Silence Among the Weapons (1982): he often worked in collaboration with his wife Margaretta D'Arcy
- ardor — emotional warmth; passion
- ardri — an Irish high king
- aread — to declare
- areal — any particular extent of space or surface; part: the dark areas in the painting; the dusty area of the room.
- arear — Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.