5-letter words containing r, o
- front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- frood — (UK dialectal, Northern England) Shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
- frore — frozen; frosty.
- frosh — a college or high-school freshman.
- frosk — (dialectal) A frog.
- frost — Robert (Lee) 1874–1963, U.S. poet.
- froth — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- frown — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- frows — Plural form of frow.
- froyo — Short of frozen yogurt.
- froze — simple past tense of freeze.
- fuero — a Spanish charter or code of laws
- furor — a general outburst of enthusiasm, excitement, controversy, or the like.
- fyrom — Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- gabor — Dennis, 1900–79, British physicist, born in Hungary: inventor of holography; Nobel Prize 1971.
- garbo — Greta (Greta Lovisa Gustaffson) 1905–90, U.S. film actress, born in Sweden.
- gator — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- genro — any of the unofficial elder statesmen of Japan who influenced the government c1875–1940.
- giron — a charge consisting of the lower half of a diagonally divided quarter, usually in the top left corner of the shield
- giros — Alternative form of gyro.
- gloar — (obsolete, intransitive) To squint; to stare.
- glore — (archaic) to glare.
- glork — /glork/ 1. Used as a name for just about anything. See foo. 2. Similar to glitch, but usually used reflexively. "My program just glorked itself." See also glark.
- glory — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- glour — Alternative spelling of glower.
- gobar — Dried cow dung used directly as fuel or as a source of gas.
- goers — Plural form of goer.
- gofer — an employee whose chief duty is running errands.
- gogra — a river in SW Tibet, Nepal, and N India, flowing S and SE to the Ganges River. 640 miles (1030 km) long.
- gomer — an undesirable hospital patient.
- goner — a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- goral — a short-horned goat antelope, Naemorhedus goral, of the mountainous regions of southeastern Asia: an endangered species.
- gordy — Berry, Jr, born 1929, U.S. music and record producer: founder of Motown records.
- gored — to make or furnish with a gore or gores.
- goren — Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- gores — Plural form of gore.
- gorey — Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- gorge — to swallow, especially greedily.
- gorki — Also, Gorky. Maxim [mak-sim;; Russian muh-ksyeem] /ˈmæk sɪm;; Russian mʌˈksyim/ (Show IPA), (Aleksey Maksimovich Pyeshkov) 1868–1936, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist.
- gorky — (informal) Awkward or strange.
- gormy — gormless
- gorse — any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- gorsy — Where gorse grows.
- goter — Obsolete form of gutter.
- gotra — a Hindu clan tracing its paternal lineage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage.
- goura — any of several species of large, crested ground pigeons found in New Guinea
- gourd — the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
- gower — John, 1325?–1408, English poet.
- grebo — (slang, UK, predominantly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
- greco — (Domenikos Theotocopoulos) 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete.