5-letter words containing t, r, o
- roast — to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.
- robot — a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
- roget — Peter Mark, 1779–1869, English physician and author of a thesaurus.
- roost — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rooti — bread.
- roots — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rooty — abounding in or consisting of roots.
- roset — resin; rosin.
- rösti — a Swiss dish consisting of grated potato formed into a cake, sometimes with onion, fried, and topped with cheese
- rot13 — /rot ther'teen/ [Usenet: from "rotate alphabet 13 places"], v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre qvq vg!" Most Usenet news reading and posting programs include a rot13 feature. It is used to enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for posting things that might offend some readers, or spoilers. A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and decoding.
- rotal — relating to wheels or rotation
- rotch — a little auk
- roter — routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure: the rote of daily living.
- rotfl — (chat) (Or "ROFL") Rolling on the floor laughing (or rolls...). Used in chat, MUD, news. See also ROTFLMAO, ROTFLOL.
- roton — a quantum of vortex motion
- rotor — Electricity. a rotating member of a machine. Compare stator (def 1).
- rotos — rotogravure.
- rotte — rote2 .
- roust — to rout, as from a place: to roust someone out of bed.
- route — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- routh — abundance; plenty.
- routs — a bellow.
- ryots — a peasant.
- sarto — Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- short — having little length; not long.
- skort — a women's garment resembling a short skirt but having individual leg sections usually covered by a flap in front.
- snort — (of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound: The spirited horse snorted and shied at the train.
- sorta — sort of; somewhat: I'm sorta nervous about asking for a date.
- soter — (Soter) king of Pergamum 241–197 b.c.
- sport — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stork — any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill. Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou (def 1), white stork, wood ibis.
- storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
- story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- stour — British Dialect. tumult; confusion. a storm.
- strop — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- strow — strew.
- stroy — to destroy.
- sutor — a cobbler or shoemaker
- tabor — Mount, a mountain in N Israel, E of Nazareth. 1929 feet (588 meters).
- tardo — slow (used as a musical direction).
- taroc — an old card game of Italy, Austria, etc. played with a deck of, usually, 78 cards that includes the tarot cards as trumps
- tarok — a card game dating probably from the Renaissance and still popular in central Europe, originally played with a special pack of 78 cards but now usually played with 32 cards of a regular pack together with 22 tarots.
- tarot — any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
- tenor — the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- thorn — German name of Toruń.
- thoro — pertaining to or noting a divorce that forbids spouses to live together but does not dissolve the marriage bond.
- thorp — a hamlet; village.
- thro' — through.
- throb — to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.