6-letter words containing r
- alders — Plural form of alder.
- aldrin — a brown to white poisonous crystalline solid, more than 95 per cent of which consists of the compound C12H8Cl6, which is used as an insecticide. Melting pt: 105°C
- alegar — malt vinegar
- alerce — the wood of the sandarac tree
- alerts — Plural form of alert.
- alfaro — (Flavio) Eloy [flah-vyaw-e-loi] /ˈflɑ vyɔ ɛˈlɔɪ/ (Show IPA), 1864–1912, Ecuadorian political leader: president 1897–1901, 1907–11.
- alfred — an old-fashioned male forename
- algren — Nelson. 1909–81, US novelist. His novels, mostly set in Chicago, include Never Come Morning (1942) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
- aliter — Otherwise.
- aljabr — (tool) An implementation of MACSYMA for the Macintosh by Fort Pond Research.
- allier — a department of central France, in Auvergne region. Capital: Moulins. Pop: 342 307 (2003 est). Area: 7382 sq km (2879 sq miles)
- allure — to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract
- almery — a cupboard built into a church wall used for storing sacred oils, church vessels, and other similar items
- altair — the brightest star in the constellation Aquila. Visual magnitude: 0.77; spectral type: A7V; distance: 16.8 light years
- altars — Plural form of altar.
- altern — alternate
- alters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alter.
- altran — (language) A Fortran extension for rational algebra developed by W.S. Brown of Bell Labs ca. 1968.
- alvaro — Corrado [kawr-rah-daw] /kɔrˈrɑ dɔ/ (Show IPA), c1890–1956, Italian journalist and novelist.
- alvira — a female given name, form of Elvira.
- amarna — the site known by Ancient Egyptians as Akhetaten
- ambari — kenaf.
- ambary — a tropical Asian malvaceous plant, Hibiscus cannabinus, that yields a fibre similar to jute
- ambeer — saliva containing tobacco juice
- ambers — Plural form of amber.
- ambery — of, relating to or resembling amber
- ambler — Eric. 1909–1998, English novelist. His thrillers include The Mask of Dimitrios (1939), Journey into Fear (1940), A Kind of Anger (1964), and Doctor Frigo (1974)
- amerce — to punish by a fine
- ameri- — American, American and
- amhara — a region of NW Ethiopia: formerly a kingdom
- amoral — If you describe someone as amoral, you do not like the way they behave because they do not seem to care whether what they do is right or wrong.
- amorce — a percussion cap for a toy pistol
- amoret — an amorous girl or woman
- amours — Plural form of amour.
- amp-hr — ampere-hour
- ampere — An ampere is a unit which is used for measuring electric current. The abbreviation amp is also used.
- ampler — Comparative form of ample.
- amrita — the ambrosia of the gods that bestows immortality
- amtrac — an amphibious tracked vehicle used primarily by the military for shore landings
- amtrak — a government-owned organization providing intercity passenger railroad services in the US
- amtran — Automatic Mathematical TRANslation
- amurca — the lees or sediment of olive oil.
- amuser — a person who amuses or entertains
- amyrin — (organic compound) Either of two isomeric triterpenoids found in some vegetable oils and resins.
- anadyr — a town in Russia, in NE Siberia at the mouth of the Anadyr River; the capital of Chukot Autonomous Okrug. Pop: 11 038 (2002)
- anarch — an instigator or personification of anarchy
- anbury — a soft spongy tumour occurring in horses and oxen
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- ancora — encore
- ancred — (heraldry) Alternative form of anchored.