4-letter words containing r, e
- gire — Obsolete form of gyre.
- goer — a person or thing that goes: We sat in the lobby watching the comers and goers.
- gore — a city in W Ethiopia.
- gree — favor; goodwill.
- greg — Gregory Alan ("Greg") born 1966, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- grep — A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.
- grew — simple past tense of grow.
- grex — a numerical system for measuring the size of fibers, filaments, or yarns, based on the weight in grams of 10,000 meters of the fibrous material.
- grey — any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
- grue — to shudder.
- gyre — a ring or circle.
- hare — any rodentlike mammal of the genus Lepus, of the family Leporidae, having long ears, a divided upper lip, and long hind limbs adapted for leaping.
- hear — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- heer — an old unit of measure for linen and woolen yarn, equivalent to about 600 yards (550 meters).
- heir — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- heor — (Geordie, abstract) here.
- hera — the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus.
- herb — a male given name, form of Herbert.
- herd — a herdsman (usually used in combination): a cowherd; a goatherd; a shepherd.
- here — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- herl — a barb of a feather, used especially in dressing anglers' flies.
- herm — a monument consisting of a four-sided shaft tapering inward from top to bottom and bearing a head or bust; those of Hermes usually had an erect penis, which passersby stroked for luck.
- hern — heron.
- hero — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
- herp — (colloquial) a reptile or amphibian.
- herr — the conventional German title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or in direct address to sir.
- hers — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- hery — to glorify; praise
- hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hoer — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- href — (web) (hypertext reference) The attribute of an HTML "a" (anchor or link) tag, whose value gives the URL of the web page or other resource that the link points to. For example, FOLDOC href definition would display an anchor pointing to this dictionary.
- huer — One who cries out or gives an alarm.
- hyer — Obsolete spelling of higher.
- icer — One who ices.
- ired — Simple past tense and past participle of ire.
- ires — intense anger; wrath.
- iret — return from interrupt
- irie — Nice, good, or pleasing (used as a general term of approval).
- iter — a canal or passage.
- iure — by law
- jedr — (person, abuse, humour) Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time, people in the Usenet newsgroup news:rec.humor.funny tended to use "JEDR" instead of IYFEG or "
"; this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group once made by a loser with initials JEDR after he was offended by an ethnic joke posted there. (The practice was retconned by expanding these initials as "Joke Ethnic/Denomination/Race".) After much sound and fury JEDR faded away; this term appears to be doing likewise. JEDR's only permanent effect on the net.culture was to discredit "sensitivity" arguments for censorship so thoroughly that more recent attempts to raise them have met with immediate and near-universal rejection. - jeer — to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
- jer. — Jeremiah
- jeri — a female given name, form of Geraldine.
- jerk — to move with a quick, sharp motion; move spasmodically.
- jers — Plural form of jer.
- jery — Several species of bird endemic to Madagascar, in the genuses Neomixis and Hartertula.
- jure — jurisprudence
- keir — a large vat in which fibers, yarns, or fabrics are boiled, bleached, or dyed.
- ker- — forming words suggesting a thump, thud, explosion, etc.