5-letter words containing n, o, r
- orion — a Boeotian giant famed as a great hunter, who figures in several tales
- orlon — a crease-resistant acrylic fibre or fabric used for clothing, furnishings, etc
- ornis — an avifauna.
- orono — a town in S Maine.
- orpen — Sir William Newenham Montague [noo-uh-nuh m,, nyoo-] /ˈnu ə nəm,, ˈnyu-/ (Show IPA), 1878–1931, Irish painter.
- orpin — a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- orrin — a male given name.
- orson — a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- orton — Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- owner — a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.
- peron — Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- porno — pornography
- porns — Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.
- porny — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- preon — a hypothetical component of a quark
- prion — a tiny proteinaceous particle, likened to viruses and viroids, but having no genetic component, thought to be an infectious agent in bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and similar encephalopathies.
- proin — a prune, or dried plum
- pron. — pronominal
- prone — having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable: to be prone to anger.
- prong — one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- pronk — a display leap performed by springbok and other antelope
- quorn — a vegetable protein developed from a type of fungus and used in cooking as a meat substitute
- racon — radar beacon.
- radon — a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- ramon — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("Ramón") 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, dramatist, biographer, and critic.
- rando — random (def 4): We were followed by some rando creep.
- rason — a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- rayon — a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- recon — reconnaissance.
- redon — Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- rejon — a spear used to kill a bull in bullfighting
- rewon — to win back or again.
- rhino — a rhinoceros.
- rhone — a river flowing from the Alps in S Switzerland through the Lake of Geneva and SE France into the Mediterranean. 504 miles (810 km) long.
- ripon — a city in N England, in North Yorkshire: cathedral (12th–16th centuries). Pop: 16 468 (2001)
- robin — a male or female given name: derived from Robert.
- rodin — (François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- roman — a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- ronan — a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.
- ronco — any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- ronde — a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- rondo — a work or movement, often the last movement of a sonata, having one principal subject that is stated at least three times in the same key and to which return is made after the introduction of each subordinate theme.
- roneo — to duplicate (a document) from a stencil
- ronin — a samurai who no longer serves a daimyo, or feudal lord.
- ronne — a seaport on W Bornholm island, Denmark, in the S Baltic Sea: stone quarries.
- rosin — Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- roton — a quantum of vortex motion
- rouen — a department in NW France. 2449 sq. mi. (6340 sq. km). Capital: Rouen.
- round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- rouyn — a city in SW Quebec, in E Canada: gold and copper mining.