6-letter words containing d, n, r
- rained — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rancid — having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils: rancid butter.
- randal — a male given name.
- randan — a rowboat designed for three people, one person in the middle using two oars and the other two using one oar each.
- randem — with three horses harnessed together as a team
- random — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- randys — a male given name, form of Randall or Randolph.
- ranged — working or grazing on a range: range horses; range animals like steer and sheep.
- ranted — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
- rebind — fasten together again
- redden — to make or cause to become red.
- redeny — to deny again
- redfin — any of various small freshwater minnows with red fins, especially a shiner, Notropis umbratilis, of streams in central North America.
- redone — to do again; repeat.
- reeden — of or consisting of reeds
- refind — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- refund — to fund anew.
- reined — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reland — to land again
- relend — to grant the use of (something) on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
- remand — to send back, remit, or consign again.
- remend — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
- remind — to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something): Remind me to phone him tomorrow. That woman reminds me of my mother.
- renard — Reynard.
- rended — to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.
- render — to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
- repand — Botany. having a wavy margin, as a leaf.
- resend — to send again.
- retund — to weaken, dull or blunt
- revend — to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling: to vend flowers at a sidewalk stand.
- rewind — an act or instance of rewinding.
- rhonda — a female given name.
- riband — a decorative ribbon.
- ridden — a past participle of ride.
- rident — laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- riding — a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- ringed — having or wearing a ring or rings.
- roband — a short piece of spun yarn or other material, used to secure a sail to a yard, gaff, or the like.
- rodent — belonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers, etc.
- rodman — a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- rodney — George Brydges [brij-iz] /ˈbrɪdʒ ɪz/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1718–92, British admiral.
- roland — Italian Orlando. the greatest of the paladins in the Charlemagne cycle of the chansons de geste, renowned for his prowess and the manner of his death in the battle of Roncesvalles (a.d. 778), also for his five days' combat with Oliver in which neither was the victor.
- ronald — a male given name: from Scandinavian words meaning “counsel” and “rule.”.
- rondel — Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting usually of 14 lines on two rhymes, of which four are made up of the initial couplet repeated in the middle and at the end, with the second line of the couplet sometimes being omitted at the end.
- rotund — round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.
- ruanda — a member of a people living in Rwanda and the E Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- rundle — a rung of a ladder.
- runted — stunted
- rwanda — a republic in central Africa, E of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly comprising the N part of the Belgian trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi; became independent 1962. 10,169 sq. mi. (26,338 sq. km). Capital: Kigali.