5-letter words containing r, e
- akure — a city in SW Nigeria, capital of Ondo state: agricultural trade centre. Pop: 434 000 (2005 est)
- alder — An alder is a species of tree or shrub that grows especially in cool, damp places and loses its leaves in winter.
- alert — If you are alert, you are paying full attention to things around you and are able to deal with anything that might happen.
- alger — Horatio. 1834–99, US author of adventure stories for boys, including Ragged Dick (1867)
- alter — If something alters or if you alter it, it changes.
- altre — Obsolete form of alter.
- alure — a flat passage often found behind parapets of churches or battlements
- amber — Amber is a hard yellowish-brown substance used for making jewellery.
- ameer — (formerly) the ruler of Afghanistan; amir
- amer. — America(n)
- amero — A proposed unified currency of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
- amper — ampersand
- ancre — having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline: a cross ancré.
- andre — John. 1751–80, British major who was hanged as a spy for conspiring with Benedict Arnold during the War of American Independence
- anear — near
- anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- anker — a unit of measurement of spirits or wine, used in various countries and formerly in England, where it was equivalent to gallons
- antre — a cavern or cave
- apert — open, unconcealed
- apery — imitative behaviour; mimicry
- apres — after
- apter — inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- apure — a river in W Venezuela, rising in the Andes and flowing east to the Orinoco. Length: about 676 km (420 miles)
- arage — (obsolete, transitive) To enrage.
- arame — a dark brown or black seaweed, Eisenia bicyclis (or Ecklonia bicyclis), that is used in Japanese cuisine
- arber — Werner. born 1929, Swiss microbiologist, noted for his work on restriction enzymes. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1978
- arced — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- ardeb — a unit of dry measure used in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries. In Egypt it is approximately equal to 0.195 cubic metres
- arden — John. (1930–2012) British dramatist and novelist. His plays include Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) and The Workhouse Donkey (1963); novels include Silence Among the Weapons (1982): he often worked in collaboration with his wife Margaretta D'Arcy
- aread — to declare
- areal — any particular extent of space or surface; part: the dark areas in the painting; the dusty area of the room.
- arear — Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.
- areas — Plural form of area.
- areca — any of various tall palms of the genus Areca, which are native to SE Asia and have white flowers and orange or red egg-shaped nuts
- areet — (Northern England) eye dialect of all right.
- arefy — to dry
- areic — relating to division by area
- arena — An arena is a place where sports, entertainments, and other public events take place. It has seats around it where people sit and watch.
- arene — an aromatic hydrocarbon
- arent — A kind of anthropogenic soil, with deep mixing due to ploughing, digging, etc.
- arepa — a Colombian cornmeal cake
- arere — backwards
- arete — sharp ridge separating two glacial valleys
- arexx — (language) REXX for the Amiga.
- argie — a term used to refer to an Argentine.
- argle — to argue or dispute (about)
- argue — If one person argues with another, they speak angrily to each other about something that they disagree about. You can also say that two people argue.
- ariel — an Arabian gazelle, Gazella arabica (or dama)
- aries — Aries is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a ram. People who are born approximately between 21st March and 19th April come under this sign.
- arise — If a situation or problem arises, it begins to exist or people start to become aware of it.