5-letter words containing s, e, r
- segor — Zoar.
- segre — Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- sehri — a meal eaten before sunrise by Muslims during Ramadan
- seler — Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- senor — a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- serac — a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- serai — (in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- seral — of or relating to a sere.
- seram — an island in Indonesia, in the Moluccas, separated from New Guinea by the Ceram Sea: mountainous and densely forested. Area: 17 150 sq km (6622 sq miles)
- serge — a male given name.
- sergt — Sergeant
- seric — made of silk; silken
- serif — a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
- serin — a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- sero- — indicating a serum
- seron — a bale or parcel wrapped in animal hide, usually containing exotic substances
- serov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, E of the Ural Mountains.
- serow — a goat antelope of the genus Capricornis, of eastern Asia, related to the goral: the Sumatran serow is endangered.
- serps — search-engine results page: a web page that is generated by a search engine to display the results of a query or search.
- serra — a sawlike part or organ
- serry — to (cause to) close together in a serried formation
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- serve — to act as a servant.
- servo — acting as part of a servomechanism: servo amplifier.
- sever — to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
- sewar — a dagger from Sumatra
- sewer — a former household officer or head servant in charge of the service of the table.
- sexer — a person trained to determine the sex of an animal, usually chickens
- share — a plowshare.
- shear — to cut (something).
- sheer — transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings.
- sherd — shard.
- shier — bashful; retiring.
- shire — a river in SE Africa, flowing S from Lake Malawi to the Zambezi River. 370 miles (596 km) long.
- shoer — a person who shoes horses or other animals.
- shore — Jane, 1445?–1527, mistress of Edward IV of England.
- shred — a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
- shrew — any of several small, mouselike insectivores of the genus Sorex and related genera, having a long, sharp snout.
- shyer — bashful; retiring.
- sider — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sieur — sir
- siker — safe from danger; secure.
- siler — a utensil for straining milk
- siper — (of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sired — the male parent of a quadruped.
- siree — (used as an intensive with no or yes): Will I go there again? No, sirree!
- siren — Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- siret — a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- sixer — a cardinal number, five plus one.
- sizer — (at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.