5-letter words containing n, o, r
- drony — (of a sound) Dronelike.
- drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- enorm — (obsolete) enormous.
- enrol — (British) alternative spelling of enroll.
- ensor — James (Sydney). 1860–1949, Belgian expressionist painter, noted for his macabre subjects
- ergon — (physics) Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.
- 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.
- forne — (obsolete) Former.
- freon — (organic compound) Any of several non-flammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23.
- frond — an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
- frons — the upper anterior portion of the head of an insect, above or behind the clypeus.
- front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- frown — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- genro — any of the unofficial elder statesmen of Japan who influenced the government c1875–1940.
- giron — a charge consisting of the lower half of a diagonally divided quarter, usually in the top left corner of the shield
- goner — a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- goren — Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- groin — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- grone — Obsolete spelling of groan.
- gronk — /gronk/ Popularised by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than "to frob" (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk".
- grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- gyron — a subordinary having the form of a triangle, usually equal to half a quarter of the escutcheon, with its apex at the fess point.
- heron — Hero (def 2).
- honer — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- honor — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- hoorn — a city in NW Netherlands.
- horne — Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- horns — Plural form of horn.
- horny — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- huron — a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
- inorb — to enclose in or as if in an orb
- intro — an introduction.
- irone — a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- irons — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- irony — the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
- knorr — (historical) A large merchant ship used in mediaeval Scandinavia.
- koner — Pauline, 1905–2000, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- koran — the sacred text of Islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
- korin — A small gazelle native to West Africa, Eudorcas rufifrons.
- korun — an aluminum bronze coin and monetary unit of the Czech Republic, equal to 100 halers. Abbreviation: Kčs.
- kreon — Creon.
- krona — a nickel-brass or aluminum coin and monetary unit of Iceland, equal to 100 aurar. Abbreviation: Kr., kr.
- krone — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Denmark, equal to 100 öre. Abbreviation: Kr., kr.
- kroon — an aluminum bronze coin and monetary unit of Estonia from 1928 to 1940 and from 1992 to 2010, when it was replaced by the euro, equal to 100 marks or senti.
- loner — a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others: He was always a loner—no one knew him well.
- loran — a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- loren — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lorin — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lorna — a female given name.