4-letter words containing r
- brig — A brig is a type of ship with two masts and square sails.
- brik — a Tunisian deep-fried spicy pastry filled with fish or meat and sometimes an egg
- brim — The brim of a hat is the wide part that sticks outwards at the bottom.
- brin — one of two filaments of silk combined by the silkworm to form a strand of silk
- brio — liveliness or vigour; spirit
- bris — ritual circumcision of male babies, usually at eight days old, regarded as the formal entry of the child to the Jewish community
- brit — British people are sometimes referred to as Brits.
- brno — a city in the Czech Republic; formerly the capital of Moravia: the country's second largest city. Pop: 375 000 (2005 est)
- bro. — brother.
- brob — a wedge-shaped spike for securing an end of a timber butting against the side of another.
- brod — to prod
- brog — a bradawl
- broo — broth, liquor, or juice
- brow — Your brow is your forehead.
- broz — Josip (ˈjɔsip). original name of Marshal Tito
- brrr — an exclamation used to suggest shivering
- brut — (of champagne) not sweet; dry
- brux — to grind the teeth, esp unconsciously
- btrl — (company) British Telecom Research Laboratories.
- btry — battery (of artillery)
- buhr — burstone.
- burb — a suburb
- burd — a young lady; maiden.
- burg — a fortified town
- buri — the first of the gods, revealed when the cow Audhumla licked away the salty ice that covered him.
- burk — Martha Jane, 1852?–1903, Calamity Jane.
- burl — a small knot or lump in wool
- burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- burp — When someone burps, they make a noise because air from their stomach has been forced up through their throat.
- burr — A burr is the part of some plants which contains seeds and which has little hooks on the outside so that it sticks to clothes or fur.
- burt — William Austin, 1792–1858, U.S. surveyor and inventor.
- buru — island of Indonesia, in the Molucca group: 3,670 sq mi (9,505 sq km)
- bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- byer — Sports. in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round: The top three seeded players received byes in the first round.
- byrd — Richard Evelyn. 1888–1957, US rear admiral, aviator, and polar explorer
- byre — A byre is a cowshed.
- cair — (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
- cara — a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “dear one.”.
- carb — Carbs are foods such as potatoes, pasta, and bread, that contain a lot of carbohydrate.
- card — A card is a piece of stiff paper or thin cardboard on which something is written or printed.
- care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
- cark — to break down; die
- carl — a masculine name
- carn — cairn.
- caro — Sir Antony. 1924–2013, British sculptor, best known for his abstract steel sculptures
- carp — A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
- carr — an area of bog or fen in which scrub, esp willow, has become established
- cars — Plural form of car.
- cart — A cart is an old-fashioned wooden vehicle that is used for transporting goods or people. Some carts are pulled by animals.
- cary — (Arthur) Joyce (Lunel). 1888–1957, British novelist; author of Mister Johnson (1939), A House of Children (1941), and The Horse's Mouth (1944)