4-letter words containing r
- froe — a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- frog — a triangular mass of elastic, horny substance in the middle of the sole of the foot of a horse or related animal.
- from — (used to specify a starting point in spatial movement): a train running west from Chicago.
- fros — Plural form of fro.
- frot — (slang) To publicly rub one's genitals against someone for sexual gratification, especially without the other's consent or knowledge.
- frow — a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- frps — Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
- frsc — Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- frug — a dance deriving from the twist.
- frum — Yiddish. religious; observant.
- frye — (Herman) Northrop, 1912–91, Canadian literary critic and educator.
- furl — to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
- furo — a short, deep Japanese bathtub, often with a seat, in which a person sits upright while soaking in hot water.
- furr — a furrow
- furs — Plural form of fur.
- fury — unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
- fyrd — the militia in Anglo-Saxon England.
- gair — a strip or patch of fertile grass
- garb — a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind: in the garb of a monk.
- gard — a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
- gare — low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- gari — thinly sliced pickled ginger, often served with sushi
- garn — (obsolete) yarn (twisted fibers for weaving).
- garp — A graphical language for concurrent programming.
- gars — Plural form of gar.
- gart — Simple past tense and past participle of gar.
- gary — Elbert Henry, 1846–1927, U.S. financier and lawyer.
- gaur — a massive wild ox, Bibos gaurus, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, growing to a height of 6 feet (1.8 meters) at the shoulder: now reduced in numbers.
- gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- geer — Obsolete form of gear.
- ger. — gerund
- gera — a city in E central Germany.
- gerb — A firework that produces a fountain of sparks.
- gerd — gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- germ — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- gern — (obsolete) To grin.
- gers — a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- gert — a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- geru — An earthy-red color. In India this colour is used to paint flowerpots and tree bases.
- gery — (obsolete) changeable; fickle.
- gird — to gibe or jeer at; taunt.
- gire — Obsolete form of gyre.
- girl — a female child, from birth to full growth.
- girn — grin2 .
- giro — autogiro.
- girt — a simple past tense and past participle of gird1 .
- gnar — to snarl; growl.
- gnrh — gonadotrophin-releasing hormone: a peptide that is released from the brain and stimulates the pituitary gland to secrete gonadotrophic hormones that act in turn on the sex glands
- goar — Obsolete form of gore (dirt, mud).
- goer — a person or thing that goes: We sat in the lobby watching the comers and goers.