4-letter words containing r
- erks — Plural form of erk.
- erme — (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to feel sad.
- erne — The sea eagle.
- eros — A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power.
- errs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of err.
- erse — of or relating to the Irish Gaelic language
- ersh — Alternative form of earsh.
- erst — Long ago; formerly.
- erté — real name Romain de Tirtoff. 1892–1990, French fashion illustrator and designer, born in Russia, noted for his extravagant costumes and tableaux for the Folies-Bergère in Paris
- erts — Electronic Reciprocal Transfer System
- eruv — An urban area enclosed by a wire boundary that symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public areas, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath.
- esrc — Economic and Social Research Council
- esro — European Space Research Organization
- etrn — (messaging, protocol) ("Extended TURN") An ESMTP command (first defined in RFC 1985) with which a client asks the server to deliver queued mail to the client via a new ESMTP connection. ETRN supersedes the SMTP "TURN" command in the same way that ESMTP's "EHLO" supersedes SMTP's "HELO".
- euer — Obsolete typography of ever.
- eure — a department of N France, in Haute-Normandie region. Capital: Évreux. Pop: 550 056 (2003 est). Area: 6037 sq km (2354 sq miles)
- euro — The single European currency, which replaced the national currencies of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Luxembourg, Austria, Finland, the Republic of Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands in 2002. Seventeen member states of the European Union now use the euro.
- ever — At any time.
- ewer — A large jug with a wide mouth, formerly used for carrying water for someone to wash in.
- ewre — (rare) Rust; oxide.
- eyer — One who eyes another.
- eyra — A reddish -brown form of the jaguarundi.
- eyre — (UK, legal, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).
- eyry — (rare) alternative spelling of eyrie.
- ezra — a Jewish priest of the 5th century bc, who was sent from Babylon by the Persian king Artaxerxes I to reconstitute observance of the Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the captivity
- fair — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- fajr — (Islam) the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims.
- farb — (US) A historical reenactor (especially a US civil war reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion of the speaker, inadequate. (For example, wearing a modern wristwatch with period costume.) The opposite of farb is \"hard-core\" (or hardcore), someone who is, in the opinion of the speaker, an \"authenticity fanatic\".
- farc — Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist revolutionary guerrilla force engaging in armed struggle against the government of Colombia
- fard — facial cosmetics.
- fare — the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- fark — (Australia, NZ, vulgar) eye dialect of fucktrue, used to express surprise, etc.
- farl — a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
- farm — processor farm
- faro — a seaport in S Portugal.
- farr — Obsolete spelling of far.
- fars — a province in SW Iran. 51,466 sq. mi. (133,297 sq. km).
- fart — a flatus expelled through the anus.
- fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
- feer — Alternative form of fear.
- ferd — (obsolete or historical) An army, a host.
- fere — a companion; mate.
- ferm — (obsolete) Rent for a farm.
- fern — a female given name.
- fery — Eye dialect of very.
- fiar — (Scotland, law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
- fire — combustion
- firk — (transitive) To carry away or about; carry; move.
- firm — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- firn — névé.