5-letter words containing r, o, e
- hofer — Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs/ (Show IPA), 1767–1810, Tyrolese patriot.
- hoker — (obsolete) scorn; derision; abusive talk.
- holer — One which holes, perforates etc.
- homer — 9th-century b.c, Greek epic poet: reputed author of the Iliad and Odyssey.
- honer — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- hoper — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
- horae — the goddesses of the seasons
- horde — a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.
- horeb — a mountain sometimes identified with Mount Sinai.
- horme — activity directed toward a goal; purposive effort.
- horne — Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- horse — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- hoser — a person who is considered unintelligent or uncouth, especially a beer-drinking man.
- houre — Obsolete spelling of hour.
- hover — to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.
- hower — a hole.
- irone — a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- joker — a person who jokes.
- koker — a sluice
- koner — Pauline, 1905–2000, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- korce — a city in SE Albania.
- korea — a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: a kingdom prior to 1910; under Japanese rule 1910–45; now divided at 38° N into North Korea and South Korea. Compare Korean War.
- kreon — Creon.
- krone — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Denmark, equal to 100 öre. Abbreviation: Kr., kr.
- leros — one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- leroy — a male given name: from Old French, meaning “the king.”.
- loire — a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- loner — a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others: He was always a loner—no one knew him well.
- loper — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- lorde — real name Ella Yelich-O'Connor. born 1996, New Zealand singer and songwriter, noted for her song Royals (2013)
- lorel — A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.
- loren — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lores — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
- lorne — Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- lorre — Peter (László Loewenstein) 1904–64, U.S. film actor, born in Hungary.
- loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
- louer — Obsolete typography of lover.
- loure — a slow dance of French origin
- lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- merlo — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- mero- — part or partial
- meroe — a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- meros — (in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- mesor — Lb biology A mean value based on the distribution of values across the cycles of the circadian rhythm, computed using a cosine function.
- metro — the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- moder — (obsolete) To moderate.
- moers — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia W Germany, in the Ruhr district.
- moire — (of silks and other fabrics) presenting a watery or wavelike appearance.
- moner — (zoology) Any member of the Monera.