5-letter words containing e, t, r
- heter — a heterosexual person.
- hetro — (informal) Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
- ibert — Jacques François Antoine [zhahk frahn-swa ahn-twan] /ʒɑk frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1890–1962, French composer.
- inert — having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active): inert matter.
- inter — to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- irate — angry; enraged: an irate customer.
- kerst — Donald William, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- kiter — a light frame covered with some thin material, to be flown in the wind at the end of a long string.
- krete — Crete
- later — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- liter — light2 (def 36).
- litre — a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- luter — One who applies lute.
- mater — British Informal. mother1 .
- merit — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- meter — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- metr- — metro-2
- metra — (medicine) The uterus.
- metre — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- metro — the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- miter — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
- mpret — a ruler or monarch
- muter — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- nerts — crazy
- nertz — insane; crazy.
- niter — potassium nitrate.
- nitre — potassium nitrate.
- noter — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- oater — a movie, television show, etc., about the frontier days of the U.S. West; western; horse opera.
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- ofter — More often (chiefly poetic and dialectal).
- orate — Make a speech, especially pompously or at length.
- other — additional or further: he and one other person.
- otter — any of several aquatic, furbearing, weasellike mammals of the genus Lutra and related genera, having webbed feet and a long, slightly flattened tail.
- outer — situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior: outer garments; an outer wall.
- outre — passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- overt — open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret: overt hostility.
- oxter — the armpit.
- pater — Latin. father of his country.
- peart — lively; brisk; cheerful.
- perst — perished
- perth — a state in W Australia. 975,920 sq. mi. (2,527,635 sq. km). Capital: Perth.
- perts — a management method of controlling and analyzing a system or program using periodic time and money reports, often computer generated, to determine dollar and labor status at any given time.
- peter — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- petra — an ancient Arab kingdom of SW Asia, in the area of present-day Jordan, that became a Roman province in a.d. 106. Capital: Petra.
- petro — of or relating to petroleum or the petroleum industry.
- porte — a city in NW Indiana.
- prate — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- prest — ready.