4-letter words containing r, e
- erté — real name Romain de Tirtoff. 1892–1990, French fashion illustrator and designer, born in Russia, noted for his extravagant costumes and tableaux for the Folies-Bergère in Paris
- erts — Electronic Reciprocal Transfer System
- eruv — An urban area enclosed by a wire boundary that symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public areas, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath.
- esrc — Economic and Social Research Council
- esro — European Space Research Organization
- etrn — (messaging, protocol) ("Extended TURN") An ESMTP command (first defined in RFC 1985) with which a client asks the server to deliver queued mail to the client via a new ESMTP connection. ETRN supersedes the SMTP "TURN" command in the same way that ESMTP's "EHLO" supersedes SMTP's "HELO".
- euer — Obsolete typography of ever.
- eure — a department of N France, in Haute-Normandie region. Capital: Évreux. Pop: 550 056 (2003 est). Area: 6037 sq km (2354 sq miles)
- euro — The single European currency, which replaced the national currencies of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Luxembourg, Austria, Finland, the Republic of Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands in 2002. Seventeen member states of the European Union now use the euro.
- ever — At any time.
- ewer — A large jug with a wide mouth, formerly used for carrying water for someone to wash in.
- ewre — (rare) Rust; oxide.
- eyer — One who eyes another.
- eyra — A reddish -brown form of the jaguarundi.
- eyre — (UK, legal, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).
- eyry — (rare) alternative spelling of eyrie.
- ezra — a Jewish priest of the 5th century bc, who was sent from Babylon by the Persian king Artaxerxes I to reconstitute observance of the Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the captivity
- fare — the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
- feer — Alternative form of fear.
- ferd — (obsolete or historical) An army, a host.
- fere — a companion; mate.
- ferm — (obsolete) Rent for a farm.
- fern — a female given name.
- fery — Eye dialect of very.
- fire — combustion
- fore — situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
- frae — from
- fred — Antoinette, 1888–1946, U.S. actress, theatrical manager, and producer.
- free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- frei — Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- fren — (obsolete) A stranger.
- freq — (slang) frequency.
- fret — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- frey — the god of peace, prosperity, and marriage: one of the Vanir, originally brought to Asgard as a hostage.
- froe — a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- frye — (Herman) Northrop, 1912–91, Canadian literary critic and educator.
- gare — low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- geer — Obsolete form of gear.
- ger. — gerund
- gera — a city in E central Germany.
- gerb — A firework that produces a fountain of sparks.
- gerd — gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- germ — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- gern — (obsolete) To grin.
- gers — a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- gert — a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- geru — An earthy-red color. In India this colour is used to paint flowerpots and tree bases.
- gery — (obsolete) changeable; fickle.