6-letter words containing r
- adhere — If you adhere to an opinion or belief, you support or hold it.
- adjure — to command, often by exacting an oath; charge
- admier — Eye dialect of admire.
- admire — If you admire someone or something, you like and respect them very much.
- adoors — at the door; of the door
- adoral — Relating to or denoting the side or end where the mouth is situated, especially in animals, such as echinoderms, that lack clear upper and lower sides.
- adorbs — Informal. very cute; adorable.
- adored — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorer — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adores — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorno — Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)
- adorns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adorn.
- adours — a river in SW France, flowing N from the Pyrenees and then W to the Bay of Biscay. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- adrate — the price or tariff that businesses pay to advertise
- adread — to dread
- adrian — Edgar Douglas, Baron Adrian. 1889–1977, English physiologist, noted particularly for his research into the function of neurons: shared with Sherrington the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine 1932
- adrift — If a boat is adrift, it is floating on the water and is not tied to anything or controlled by anyone.
- adroit — Someone who is adroit is quick and skilful in their thoughts, behaviour, or actions.
- adsorb — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a substance, usually a gas, accumulates on the surface of a solid forming a thin film, often only one molecule thick
- adsorp — (nonstandard) To adsorb.
- adverb — An adverb is a word such as 'slowly', 'now', 'very', 'politically', or 'fortunately' which adds information about the action, event, or situation mentioned in a clause.
- advert — An advert is an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about something such as a product, event, or job.
- adware — a type of computer software that collects information about a user's browsing patterns in order to display relevant advertisements in his or her Web browser
- aerate — To aerate a substance means to cause air or gas to pass through it.
- aerial — You talk about aerial attacks and aerial photographs to indicate that people or things on the ground are attacked or photographed by people in aeroplanes.
- aeried — located in a very high place
- aerier — ethereal; aerial.
- aeries — the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- aerify — to change or cause to change into a gas
- aerily — in an aery manner
- aerobe — an organism that requires oxygen for respiration
- aeron. — aeronautics
- aerope — the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- aerugo — verdigris.
- aether — ether
- afeard — frightened; afraid
- affair — If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
- affear — (archaic) To frighten, to scare; to terrify.
- affeer — to assess, to decide upon an amount
- affirm — If you affirm that something is true or that something exists, you state firmly and publicly that it is true or exists.
- afford — If you cannot afford something, you do not have enough money to pay for it.
- affors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affor.
- affrap — to hit, land a blow
- affray — An affray is a noisy and violent fight, especially in a public place.
- affret — a fierce and raging attack
- aflare — Flaring.
- afore- — before
- afraes — Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- afraid — If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
- afreet — a powerful evil demon or giant monster