4-letter words containing r
- dark — When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
- darn — If you darn something knitted or made of cloth, you mend a hole in it by sewing stitches across the hole and then weaving stitches in and out of them.
- darr — (UK, dialect, Norfolk) A bird, the European black tern.
- dart — If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
- dear — You use dear to describe someone or something that you feel affection for.
- deer — A deer is a large wild animal that eats grass and leaves. A male deer usually has large, branching horns.
- dere — harm; injury; trouble
- derm — a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- dern — a secret; a secret place
- dero — a tramp or derelict
- derp — a person or thing considered to be foolish or awkward.
- derv — (UK) Diesel fuel for cars and lorries.
- detr — Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions
- dier — One who dies.
- dior — Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- dir. — director
- dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirk — a male given name, form of Derek.
- dirl — to vibrate; shake.
- dirt — Design In Real Time
- doer — a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- door — a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- dora — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- dork — Slang. a silly, out-of-touch person who tends to look odd or behave ridiculously around others; a social misfit: If you make me wear that, I’ll look like a total dork! Synonyms: jerk, schmo; nerd, geek.
- dorm — dormitory.
- dorn — A British ray; the thornback.
- dorp — a village; hamlet.
- dorr — Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- dors — Plural form of dor.
- dort — Dordrecht.
- dory — a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- dour — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- dper — /dee-pee-er/ Data Processor. Hackers are absolutely amazed that suits use this term self-referentially. *Computers* process data, not people! See DP.
- dprk — Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
- drab — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- drag — drag and drop
- dram — dynamic random-access memory
- drat — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- drau — a river in S central Europe, rising in N Italy and flowing east through Austria, then southeast along the southern Hungarian border to join the River Danube. Length: 725 km (450 miles)
- draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- dray — a low, strong cart without fixed sides, for carrying heavy loads.
- dree — tedious; dreary.
- dreg — dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- drek — excrement; dung.
- drew — simple past tense of draw.
- drey — The nest of a squirrel, typically in the form of a mass of twigs in a tree.
- drib — a small or minute quantity; bit.
- drin — a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- drip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.