4-letter words containing r, e
- rone — a drainpipe or gutter for carrying rainwater from a roof
- rope — a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- rose — Remote Operations Service Element
- rote — the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
- roue — a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- rove — to wander about without definite destination; move hither and thither at random, especially over a wide area.
- rowe — Nicholas, 1674–1718, British poet and dramatist, poet laureate 1715–18.
- rte. — Rte. is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities. Rte. is a written abbreviation for route.
- rtee — Real Time Engineering Environment: a set of CASE tools produced by Westmount Technology B.V.
- rube — Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
- rude — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
- rued — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- ruer — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- rues — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- rune — a poem, song, or verse.
- ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
- ryle — Sir Martin, 1918–84, British astronomer: Nobel Prize in physics 1974.
- rype — the ptarmigan
- sear — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
- seer — a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- seir — a fish, Cybidium guttatum, of Indian seas belonging to the mackerel family
- ser- — sero-
- sera — a plural of serum.
- serb — a person born or living in Serbia; esp., a member of a Slavic people of Serbia and adjacent areas
- serc — Science and Engineering Research Council
- sere — dry; withered.
- serf — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- serg — Sergeant
- seri — a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- serp — search-engine results page: a web page that is generated by a search engine to display the results of a query or search.
- serr — to press close (together); to form serried ranks
- sert — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- serv — servant
- sher — Sir Antony. born 1953, British actor and writer, born in South Africa
- sire — the male parent of a quadruped.
- sker — to scour
- soer — in the way or manner indicated, described, or implied: Do it so.
- sore — suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc., as a person: He is sore because of all that exercise.
- ster — sterling
- suer — to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.
- sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- tare — the act of tearing.
- tear — the act of tearing.
- teer — to plaster or cover with (clay, earth, etc)
- ter- — three, third, or three times
- term — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- tern — a set of three.
- tier — a person or thing that ties.
- tire — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.