4-letter words containing r
- arsm — Associate of the Royal School of Mines
- art. — plural arts. article; articles.
- arti — a ritual performed in homes and temples in which incense and light is offered to a deity
- arts — cunning or crafty actions or plots; schemes
- arty — Someone who is arty seems very interested in drama, film, music, poetry, or painting. People often describe someone as arty when they want to suggest that the person is pretentious.
- arum — any plant of the aroid genus Arum, of Europe and the Mediterranean region, having arrow-shaped leaves and a typically white spathe
- arvn — a soldier in the army of South Vietnam.
- arvo — afternoon
- aryl — of, consisting of, or containing an aromatic group
- aser — Asher (def 1).
- asir — a region of SW Saudi Arabia, in the Southern Province on the Red Sea: under Turkish rule until 1933. Area: 81 000 sq km (31 000 sq miles)
- assr — (formerly) Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- asur — Assur.
- atar — attar (def 1).
- atry — lying to under a trysail in heavy weather; trying.
- attr — Abbreviation of attributive.
- auer — Karl (karl), Baron von Welsbach. 1858–1929, Austrian chemist who discovered the alloy of cerium and iron used for flints in cigarette lighters and invented the incandescent gas mantle
- aura — An aura is a quality or feeling that seems to surround a person or place or to come from them.
- avar — a member of a people of unknown origin in E Europe from the 6th to the early 9th century ad: crushed by Charlemagne around 800
- aver — If you aver that something is the case, you say very firmly that it is true.
- awre — Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
- awry — If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
- ayer — Sir Alfred Jules. 1910–89, English positivist philosopher, noted particularly for his antimetaphysical work Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)
- ayre — air1 (def 8d).
- badr — Battle of, Islam. a decisive battle in the early days of Islam (a.d. 624), in which Muhammad with about 300 men overcame a force of about 1000 Meccans.
- baer — Karl Ernst von [kahrl urnst von,, fuh n] /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn,, fən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.
- bahr — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1863–1934, Austrian playwright and critic.
- baor — British Army of the Rhine
- bar- — (before Jewish patronymic names) son of
- bara — Theda [thee-duh] /ˈθi də/ (Show IPA), (Theodosia Goodman) 1890–1955, U.S. actress.
- barb — A barb is a sharp curved point near the end of an arrow or fish-hook which makes it difficult to pull out.
- bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
- bare — If a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing.
- barf — If someone barfs, they vomit.
- bari — a port in SE Italy, capital of Apulia, on the Adriatic coast. Pop: 316 532 (2001)
- bark — When a dog barks, it makes a short, loud noise, once or several times.
- barm — the yeasty froth on fermenting malt liquors
- barn — A barn is a building on a farm in which crops or animal food can be kept.
- barp — a mound or cairn of stones
- bars — Plural form of bar.
- bart — Lionel. 1930–99, British composer and playwright. His musicals include Oliver! (1960)
- baur — a humorous anecdote
- bcar — British Civil Airworthiness Requirements
- bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
- beer — Beer is a bitter alcoholic drink made from grain.
- bere — barley
- berg — Alban (Maria Johannes) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas Wozzeck (1921) and Lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs
- berk — If you call someone a berk, you think they are stupid or irritating.
- berm — a narrow path or ledge at the edge of a slope, road, or canal
- bern — the capital of Switzerland, in the W part, on the Aar River: entered the Swiss confederation in 1353 and became the capital in 1848. Pop: 122 700 (2002 est)