5-letter words containing r, e
- earle — a male given name: from the old English word meaning “noble.”.
- earls — Plural form of earl.
- early — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- earns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of earn.
- earnt — (chiefly British) Simple past tense and past participle of earn.
- earom — Electrically Alterable Read-Only Memory.
- earsh — (archaic) stubble field.
- earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- eater — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- ebert — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1871–1925, first president of Germany 1919–25.
- ebery — Eye dialect of every.
- ebor. — Eboracensis
- ecard — A computerized greeting card, typically hosted on a Web site to which the recipient is directed by an e-mail message.
- ecrus — very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
- edder — Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
- edgar — a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “spear.”.
- edger — a person who puts an edge, especially a finishing edge, on a garment, surface, lens, etc.
- edram — Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory
- eeler — A fisherman who catches eels.
- eerie — uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
- eggar — A large brownish moth that is often active during the day. The caterpillars typically bear irritant hairs and make an egg-shaped cocoon.
- egger — tent caterpillar.
- egrep — (tool) An extended version of the Unix grep command. Egrep accepts extended regular expressions (REs) including "*" following multi-character REs; "+" (one or more matches); "?" (zero or one matches); "|" separating two REs matches either. REs may be bracketed with (). Despite its additional complexity, egrep is usually faster than fgrep or grep.
- egret — A heron with mainly white plumage, having long plumes in the breeding season.
- eider — A northern sea duck, of which the male has mainly black and white plumage with a colored head, and the brown female has soft down feathers that are used to line the nest.
- eiger — a mountain in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. Height: 3970 m (13 025 ft)
- eirie — Alternative form of eyrie.
- elara — a small satellite of Jupiter in an intermediate orbit
- elder — (of one or more out of a group of related or otherwise associated people) of a greater age.
- elgar — Sir Edward (William). 1857–1934, English composer, whose works include the Enigma Variations (1899), the oratorio The Dream of Gerontius (1900), two symphonies, a cello concerto, and a violin concerto
- elmer — a masculine name
- elver — A young eel, especially when undergoing mass migration upriver from the sea.
- embar — (archaic) To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
- ember — A small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire.
- emdir — The CERN Electronic Mail DIRectory utility.
- emeer — Alternative spelling of emir.
- emerg — (Canada slang) The emergency department of a hospital.
- emery — A grayish-black mixture of corundum and magnetite, used in powdered form as an abrasive.
- emirs — Plural form of emir.
- emmer — An old kind of Eurasian wheat with bearded ears and spikelets that each contain two grains, now grown mainly for fodder and breakfast cereals.
- emory — a masculine name: var. Emery; equiv. Ger. Emmerich, It. Amerigo
- enarm — to provide with arms or armour
- encur — Alternative form of incur.
- ender — Something which ends another thing.
- enorm — (obsolete) enormous.
- enrol — (British) alternative spelling of enroll.
- ensor — James (Sydney). 1860–1949, Belgian expressionist painter, noted for his macabre subjects
- enter — Come or go into (a place).
- entre — Archaic spelling of enter.
- entry — An act of going or coming in.