5-letter words containing d, r
- fiord — a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.
- fired — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- fjord — a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.
- fnord — 1. (convention) A word used in electronic mail and news messages to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humour, especially in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?" 2. (programming) A metasyntactic variable, commonly used by hackers with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the SubGenius. The word "fnord" was invented in the "Illuminatus!" trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
- forde — Frank, full name Francis Michael Forde. 1890–1983, Australian politician; prime minister of Australia for eight days (1945)
- fordo — to do away with; kill; destroy.
- fords — Plural form of ford.
- fraid — Eye dialect of afraid.
- fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
- freda — a female given name.
- freed — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- fremd — (rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant.
- freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- fried — cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.
- frond — an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
- frood — (UK dialectal, Northern England) Shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
- garda — Lake, a lake in N Italy: the largest lake in Italy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 143 sq. mi. (370 sq. km).
- garde — Obsolete form of guard.
- girds — Plural form of gird.
- gordy — Berry, Jr, born 1929, U.S. music and record producer: founder of Motown records.
- gored — to make or furnish with a gore or gores.
- gourd — the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
- grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- grads — Plural form of grad.
- grand — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- greed — excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- gride — to make a grating sound; scrape harshly; grate; grind.
- grids — Plural form of grid.
- grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grody — repulsive; disgusting; nauseating.
- groid — (derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- gruds — (slang, New Zealand) Underpants, underwear.
- gruid — (zoology) Any member of the Gruidae.
- guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- hadar — a fossil site in the Afar triangle of eastern Ethiopia where Australopithecus afarensis was found.
- hards — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hardy — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hared — any rodentlike mammal of the genus Lepus, of the family Leporidae, having long ears, a divided upper lip, and long hind limbs adapted for leaping.
- hdqrs — headquarters: replaced in military use by HQ
- heard — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- heder — (especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
- heerd — Dialectical form of heard.
- herds — Plural form of herd.
- herod — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
- hider — to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?
- hired — Simple past tense and past participle of hire.
- hoard — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- horde — a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.
- hydr- — hydro-
- hydra — A minute freshwater coelenterate with a stalklike tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth.