5-letter words containing or
- torun — a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- torus — Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- tudor — Antony, 1909–87, English choreographer and dancer.
- tumor — a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- tutor — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- tylor — Sir Edward Burnett. 1832–1917, British anthropologist; first professor of anthropology at Oxford (1896). His Primitive Culture (1871) became a standard work
- valor — boldness or determination in facing great danger, especially in battle; heroic courage; bravery: a medal for valor.
- vapor — a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs.
- vidor — King (Wallis) 1895–1982, U.S. motion-picture director and producer.
- vigor — active strength or force.
- visor — Armor. (on a close helmet) a piece having slits or holes for vision, situated above and pivoted with a beaver or a ventail and beaver. a similar piece of plate having holes or slits for vision and breathing, attached to or used with any of various other helmets, as the armet, sallet, basinet, or helm.
- vizor — to protect or mask with a visor; shield.
- vlore — a seaport in SW Albania.
- vycor — a heat-resistant glassware with a high percentage of silica, used mainly for laboratory and industrial beakers, crucibles, tubes, etc.
- whore — a person who engages in promiscuous sex for money; prostitute.
- whorf — Benjamin Lee, 1897–1941, U.S. linguist.
- whorl — a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; verticil.
- whort — the whortleberry.
- worcs — Worcestershire
- worde — Wynkyn de [wing-kin] /ˈwɪŋ kɪn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Van Wynkyn) died 1534 or 35, English printer.
- words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- wordy — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
- worke — Obsolete spelling of work.
- works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- worms — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- wormy — containing a worm or worms; contaminated with worms.
- worne — Obsolete spelling of worn, Past participle of wear.
- worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- worse — in ill health; sick: He felt badly.
- worst — in ill health; sick: He felt badly.
- worth — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- worts — Plural form of wort.
- yores — Chiefly Literary. time past: knights of yore.
- yorks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of york.
- zoril — a weasellike African animal, Ictonyx striatus, resembling a skunk in coloration and habits.
- zoris — Plural form of zori.
- zorro — A South American fox-wolf.
- zorse — The offspring of a zebra and a horse (strictly, a male zebra and a female horse), typically sterile. Zorses resemble horses or mules with dark zebra stripes.
- zukor — Adolph, 1873–1976, U.S. film producer, born in Hungary.