4-letter words containing r
- berr — bus error
- bert — a male given name, form of Albert, Bertram, Herbert, Hubert, etc.
- beur — a person born in France of North African descent
- bier — a platform or stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse rests before burial
- bior — An early system on UNIVAC I or II.
- bird — A bird is a creature with feathers and wings. Female birds lay eggs. Most birds can fly.
- biri — bidi.
- birk — a birch tree
- birl — to spin; twirl
- biro — A Biro is a pen with a small metal ball at its tip which transfers the ink onto the paper.
- birr — to make or cause to make a whirring sound
- bldr — builder
- blur — A blur is a shape or area which you cannot see clearly because it has no distinct outline or because it is moving very fast.
- boar — A boar or a wild boar is a wild pig.
- boer — The Boers are the descendants of the Dutch people who went to live in South Africa.
- bohr — Aage Niels (ˈɔɡə neːls). 1922–2009, Danish physicist, noted for his work on nuclear structure. He shared the Nobel prize for physics 1975
- boor — If you refer to someone as a boor, you think their behaviour and attitudes are rough, uneducated, and rude.
- bor- — boro-
- bora — a violent cold north wind blowing from the mountains to the E coast of the Adriatic, usually in winter
- bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
- borf — (jargon) To uncerimoniously disconnect someone from a system without prior warning. BBS Sysops routinely "borf" pest users by turning off the modem or by hitting the "auto-borf" key sequence. You can also be "borfed" by software dropping carrier due to a bug. The origin of the term is unknown but it has been in use since at least 1982.
- borg — Björn (bjœrn). born 1956, Swedish tennis player: Wimbledon champion 1976–80; French Open champion 1974–75, 1978–81
- bork — to incorrectly configure a device, esp a computer
- borm — to smear with paint, oil, etc
- born — When a baby is born, it comes out of its mother's body at the beginning of its life. In formal English, if you say that someone is born of someone or to someone, you mean that person is their parent.
- bors — one the knights of the Round Table, nephew of Lancelot
- bort — an inferior grade of diamond used for cutting and drilling or, in powdered form, as an industrial abrasive
- bowr — a muscle
- brad — a small tapered nail having a small head that is either symmetrical or formed on one side only
- brae — a hill or hillside; slope
- brag — If you brag, you say in a very proud way that you have something or have done something.
- brak — (of water) brackish or salty
- bram — a male given name.
- bran — Bran is the outer skin of grain that is left when the grain has been used to make flour.
- brap — an exclamation used to imitate the sound of a burst of gunfire from an automatic weapon
- brat — If you call someone, especially a child, a brat, you mean that he or she behaves badly or annoys you.
- braw — fine or excellent, esp in appearance or dress
- bray — When a donkey brays, it makes a loud harsh sound.
- brca — either of two genes (BRCA1 or BRCA2) that, if inherited in a mutated form, may predispose some carriers to develop breast or ovarian cancer.
- brcs — British Red Cross Society
- brea — a town in S California.
- bred — Bred is the past tense and past participle of breed.
- bree — broth, stock, or juice
- brei — to speak with a uvular r, esp in Afrikaans
- brel — Jacques (ʒak). 1929–78, Belgian-born composer and singer, based in Paris. His songs include "Ne me quitte pas" ("Don't Leave Me")
- bren — type of machine gun
- brer — brother.
- bres — a Fomorian king of Ireland, whose unpopular rule led to the expulsion of the Fomorians by the Tuatha De Danann.
- brew — If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee.
- brie — Brie is a type of cheese that comes from France. It is soft and creamy with a white skin.