4-letter words containing r, e
- boer — The Boers are the descendants of the Dutch people who went to live in South Africa.
- bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
- brae — a hill or hillside; slope
- brea — a town in S California.
- bred — Bred is the past tense and past participle of breed.
- bree — broth, stock, or juice
- brei — to speak with a uvular r, esp in Afrikaans
- brel — Jacques (ʒak). 1929–78, Belgian-born composer and singer, based in Paris. His songs include "Ne me quitte pas" ("Don't Leave Me")
- bren — type of machine gun
- brer — brother.
- bres — a Fomorian king of Ireland, whose unpopular rule led to the expulsion of the Fomorians by the Tuatha De Danann.
- brew — If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee.
- brie — Brie is a type of cheese that comes from France. It is soft and creamy with a white skin.
- byer — Sports. in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round: The top three seeded players received byes in the first round.
- byre — A byre is a cowshed.
- care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
- cber — a person who owns and operates a CB radio.
- cdre — Commodore
- cer- — cero-
- cera — (in prescriptions) wax.
- cere — a soft waxy swelling, containing the nostrils, at the base of the upper beak in such birds as the parrot
- cerf — Bennett (Alfred) 1898–1971, U.S. book publisher, editor, and writer.
- cern — Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire; an organization of European states with a centre in Geneva for research in high-energy particle physics, now called the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
- cero — a large spiny-finned food fish, Scomberomorus regalis, of warm American coastal regions of the Atlantic: family Scombridae (mackerels, tunnies, etc)
- cert — If you say that someone or something is a cert, you mean that you are certain they will succeed.
- cher — a department of central France, in E Centre region. Capital: Bourges. Pop: 312 277 (2003 est). Area: 7304 sq km (2849 sq miles)
- cire — (of fabric) treated with a heat or wax process to make it smooth
- core — The core of a fruit is the central part of it. It contains seeds or pips.
- cpre — Council for the Protection of Rural England
- creb — cyclic amp-response element binding protein; a protein involved in the long-term memory process
- cred — Cred is the same as street cred.
- cree — temporary immunity from the rules of a game: said by children
- cren — Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
- creo — (slang) short for creationist.
- crew — The crew of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft is the people who work on and operate it.
- crue — Obsolete form of crew.
- cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
- dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
- dear — You use dear to describe someone or something that you feel affection for.
- deer — A deer is a large wild animal that eats grass and leaves. A male deer usually has large, branching horns.
- dere — harm; injury; trouble
- derm — a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- dern — a secret; a secret place
- dero — a tramp or derelict
- derp — a person or thing considered to be foolish or awkward.
- derv — (UK) Diesel fuel for cars and lorries.
- detr — Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions
- dier — One who dies.
- dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- doer — a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.