5-letter words containing r, y, o
- loury — lowery.
- lowry — (Clarence) Malcolm (Boden) [bohd-n] /ˈboʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1909–57, U.S. novelist, born in England.
- mayor — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- moory — Resembling a moor; swampy; boggy.
- moray — any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- myron — flourished c450 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- norry — An improvised rail vehicle from Cambodia; a bamboo train.
- nyoro — a member of a Negroid people of W Uganda
- ochry — ocher.
- onery — (US, particularly, Southern US) eye dialect ornery.
- oracy — the ability to express oneself in and understand spoken language.
- orczy — Emmuska [em-moo sh-ko] /ˈɛm mʊʃ kɒ/ (Show IPA), Baroness, 1865–1947, English novelist, born in Hungary.
- oriya — an Indic language spoken in Odisha, in eastern India.
- otary — An eared seal.
- oudry — Jean-Baptiste (ʒɑ̃batist). 1686–1755, French rococo painter and tapestry designer, noted esp for animal and hunting scenes
- ovary — Anatomy, Zoology. the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop.
- oyers — oyer and terminer.
- payor — A payor is a person who makes a payment.
- porgy — a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
- porky — of, relating to, or resembling pork.
- porny — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- porty — resembling port; affected by port
- prosy — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- proxy — the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another.
- pyro- — denoting fire, heat, or high temperature
- rayon — a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- roary — roar-like or tending to roar, noisy
- robey — Sir George, original name George Edward Wade, known as the prime minister of mirth. 1869–1954, British music-hall comedian, who also appeared in films
- rocky — inclined or likely to rock; tottering; shaky; unsteady.
- roily — turbid; muddy.
- roofy — having or abounding in roofs
- rooky — full of or frequented by rooks.
- roomy — affording ample room; spacious; large.
- roopy — hoarse
- rooty — abounding in or consisting of roots.
- ropey — If you say that something is ropey, you mean that its quality is poor or unsatisfactory.
- rosys — a female given name, form of Rose.
- roupy — hoarse or husky.
- rouyn — a city in SW Quebec, in E Canada: gold and copper mining.
- rowdy — a rough, disorderly person.
- royal — of or relating to a king, queen, or other sovereign: royal power; a royal palace.
- royce — Josiah, 1855–1916, U.S. philosopher and educator.
- ryots — a peasant.
- sorry — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- soyer — Moses1899-1974; U.S. painter, born in Russia
- story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- stroy — to destroy.
- syro- — indicating Syrian and
- syros — an island in the Aegean Sea, off the SE coast of Greece, the largest island in the Cyclades group. 32 sq. mi. (84 sq. km).
- troys — Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.