5-letter words containing e, t, r
- derth — (obsolete) dearth; scarcity.
- deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
- doter — to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually followed by on or upon): They dote on their youngest daughter.
- drate — Simple past form of drite.
- drest — a simple past tense and past participle of dress.
- drite — (intransitive, obsolete) To defecate.
- earnt — (chiefly British) Simple past tense and past participle of earn.
- earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- eater — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- ebert — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1871–1925, first president of Germany 1919–25.
- egret — A heron with mainly white plumage, having long plumes in the breeding season.
- enter — Come or go into (a place).
- entre — Archaic spelling of enter.
- entry — An act of going or coming in.
- erato — the Muse of love poetry
- erect — Rigidly upright or straight.
- ergot — A fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black, elongated, fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism.
- ernst — Max (maks). 1891–1976, German painter, resident in France and the US, a prominent exponent of Dada and surrealism: developed the technique of collage
- eruct — Emit stomach gas noisily through the mouth; belch.
- erupt — (of a volcano) become active and eject lava, ash, and gases.
- ester — An organic compound made by replacing the hydrogen of an acid by an alkyl or other organic group. Many naturally occurring fats and essential oils are esters of fatty acids.
- estro — poetic inspiration
- ether — A pleasant-smelling, colorless, volatile liquid that is highly flammable. It is used as an anesthetic and as a solvent or intermediate in industrial processes.
- evert — Turn (a structure or organ) outward or inside out.
- ewart — Gavin (Buchanan). 1916–95, British poet, noted for his light satirical verse
- exert — Apply or bring to bear (a force, influence, or quality).
- extra — Added to an existing or usual amount or number.
- extry — (dialectal) extra.
- feart — afraid
- fetor — a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- forte — a passage that is loud and played with force or is marked to be so. Abbreviation: f.
- frate — a monk or friar
- freat — Alternative form of freet.
- freet — A superstitious notion or belief with respect to any action or event as a good or a bad omen; a superstition.
- freit — (Scotland) A superstitious object or obvservance; a charm, an omen.
- frets — Plural form of fret.
- frett — A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
- gater — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- goter — Obsolete form of gutter.
- grate — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- great — unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city.
- greet — to lament; bewail.
- greta — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- grote — George, 1794–1871, English historian.
- harte — (Francis) Bret [bret] /brɛt/ (Show IPA), 1839–1902, U.S. author, especially of short stories.
- hater — a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination): I'm a big hater of opera. Are you a dog-hater?
- heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- herat — a city in NW Afghanistan.
- herts — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- hertz — the standard unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one cycle per second. Abbreviation: Hz.