5-letter words containing s, e, r
- krebs — Sir Hans Adolf [hahns ah-dawlf;; English hanz ad-olf,, ey-dolf] /hɑns ˈɑ dɔlf;; English hænz ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–81, German biochemist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- krems — a city in NE Austria, on the Danube.
- lares — (initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- laser — a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.
- lears — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- leers — to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
- leros — one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- liers — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lores — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
- loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- lyres — Plural form of lyre.
- mares — Plural form of mare.
- marse — (used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- maser — a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- mears — a boundary or boundary marker.
- mercs — Plural form of merc.
- meres — Plural form of mere.
- meros — (in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- merse — low level ground by a river or shore, often alluvial and fertile
- mesor — Lb biology A mean value based on the distribution of values across the cycles of the circadian rhythm, computed using a cosine function.
- mires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mire.
- miser — a comedy (1668) by Molière.
- moers — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia W Germany, in the Ruhr district.
- mores — Mossi (def 2).
- morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
- moser — Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- mures — a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- murse — (US slang) a man's purse.
- muser — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- myers — L(eopold) H(amilton). 1881–1944, British novelist, best known for his novel sequence The Near and the Far (1929–40)
- nares — The nostrils.
- nears — close; to a point or place not far away: Come near so I won't have to shout.
- nerds — Plural form of nerd.
- nerts — crazy
- norse — of or relating to ancient Scandinavia, its inhabitants, or their language.
- noser — (rare) someone who noses, a nosy person.
- nurse — a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- ogres — Plural form of ogre.
- omers — Plural form of omer.
- oners — Plural form of oner.
- opers — Plural form of oper.
- osier — any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- osler — Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- oyers — oyer and terminer.
- pares — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
- parse — parser
- pears — the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- peers — a person of the same legal status: a jury of one's peers.