5-letter words containing e, t, r
- trite — lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
- troke — truck2 (defs 4–7).
- trone — a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- trope — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trove — a collection of objects.
- truce — a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- trued — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- truer — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- trues — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- trule — transformational rule.
- tuber — a person or thing that forms, installs, or operates with tubes.
- tuner — a person or thing that tunes.
- tuyer — an opening through which the blast of air enters a blast furnace, cupola, forge, or the like, to facilitate combustion.
- twerk — to dance to hip-hop or pop music in a very sensual way typically by thrusting or shaking the buttocks and hips while in a squatting or bent-over position.
- twerp — an insignificant or despicable fellow: Her father thinks her boyfriend is just a twerp.
- twire — to look at (someone or something) intently or with difficulty
- twoer — something consisting of or worth two
- tyler — John, 1790–1862, 10th president of the U.S. 1841–45.
- tyner — McCoy (Sulaimon Saud) born 1938, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- tyred — to furnish with tires.
- tyree — Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, near Ronne Ice Shelf. About 16,290 feet (4965 meters).
- upter — of poor quality; in disrepair
- urate — a salt of uric acid.
- urent — burning
- urite — a segment or part of the abdomen in insects
- uteri — the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain mammals.
- uther — king of Britain and father of Arthur.
- utter — to give audible expression to; speak or pronounce: unable to utter her feelings; Words were uttered in my hearing.
- verst — a Russian measure of distance equivalent to 3500 feet or 0.6629 mile or 1.067 kilometers.
- vertu — excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
- voter — a person who votes.
- water — a liquid solution or preparation, especially one used for cosmetic purposes: lavender water; lemon water.
- werst — Obsolete spelling of verst.
- wrest — to twist or turn; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.
- write — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- wrote — a simple past tense of write.