5-letter words containing s, e
- qeshm — the largest island in the Persian Gulf: part of Iran. Area: 1336 sq km (516 sq miles)
- quest — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- queys — a heifer.
- rabes — Plural form of rabe.
- races — Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
- rages — an ancient city of Media, on the site of present-day Tehran, Iran.
- raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- rales — an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- rased — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- raser — raze.
- rases — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- rasse — a small civet, Viverricula indica, of S and SE Asia
- rates — the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation: a high rate of interest on loans.
- raxes — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- reais — real3 (sense 2)
- reams — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- rears — the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house.
- rebus — a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables: Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.
- recks — to have care, concern, or regard (often followed by of, with, or a clause).
- redos — to do again; repeat.
- reeks — a strong, unpleasant smell.
- reest — to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- reges — Rex (sense 2)
- regis — a male given name.
- reims — a city in NE France: scene of the coronation of most French monarchs. Pop: 188 078 (2006)
- reins — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reist — (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go; balk.
- remus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- rents — an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure.
- resat — past and past participle of resit
- resaw — to saw again.
- resay — to say again; repeat
- resee — to see again
- reset — to set again: to reset an alarm clock; to reset a broken bone.
- resew — to sew again
- resht — Rasht.
- resid — the residual oil left over from the petroleum distillation process
- resin — a male given name.
- resit — a test or examination that is retaken.
- resod — to returf (a lawn)
- resow — to sow (seed, grain, land, fields, etc) again
- resto — a restored antique, vintage car, etc
- restr — restaurant
- resty — having the characteristic of being disposed to rest
- reuse — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- reyes — Point, a promontory in Marin County, on the coast of N California, NW of San Francisco: national seashore.
- ribes — any shrub of the genus Ribes, including blackcurrants and redcurrants
- riles — to irritate or vex.
- rimes — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- rinse — to wash lightly, as by pouring water into or over or by dipping in water: to rinse a cup.