6-letter words containing r
- aarthi — Alternative form of aarti.
- abaser — a person who abases
- abater — a person who or thing which abates
- abator — a person who effects an abatement
- abbrev — (jargon) /*-breev'/, /*-brev'/ Common abbreviation for "abbreviation".
- abhors — to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- abhour — Obsolete form of abhor.
- abider — to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.
- abitur — the final school examination in Germany
- abjure — If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
- aboard — If you are aboard a ship or plane, you are on it or in it.
- aborad — (anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral).
- aboral — away from or opposite the mouth
- aborne — auburn
- aborts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abort.
- abrade — To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
- abraid — to awake
- abrams — Plural form of abram.
- abrase — (obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank. (Attested only in the 17th century.).
- abrash — any variation or change, typically striation, in the different dyes of an Oriental rug as it ages.
- abrazo — an embrace used as a greeting or on parting in Spain and Latin America
- abread — (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Abroad.
- abrégé — an abridgment
- abrest — Alternative spelling of abreast.
- abroad — If you go abroad, you go to a foreign country, usually one which is separated from the country where you live by an ocean or a sea.
- abrupt — An abrupt change or action is very sudden, often in a way which is unpleasant.
- absorb — If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
- absurd — If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
- abukir — bay at the mouth of the Nile, near Alexandria, Egypt: site of the British victory (1798) under Nelson over the French
- aburas — Plural form of abura.
- aburst — in a bursting state
- abuser — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- abwehr — the German high-command service for espionage, counterintelligence, and sabotage during World War II.
- acarid — any of the small arachnids of the order Acarina (or Acari), which includes the ticks and mites
- acarus — any of the free-living mites of the widely distributed genus Acarus, several of which, esp A. siro, are serious pests of stored flour, grain, etc
- acater — a buyer of and supplier of provisions; caterer
- accord — An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
- accrue — If money or interest accrues or if you accrue it, it gradually increases in amount over a period of time.
- acerra — (in Ancient Rome) A small box for holding incense.
- acinar — of or relating to any of the terminal saclike portions of a compound gland
- acoria — (pathology) Excessive eating due to a lack of the sensation of satiety.
- acorns — Plural form of acorn.
- acrawl — crawling
- across — If someone or something goes across a place or a boundary, they go from one side of it to the other.
- acrost — Eye dialect of across.
- actors — Plural form of actor.
- acture — action
- acuter — Comparative form of acute.
- ad rem — to the point; without digression
- adders — Plural form of adder.