5-letter words containing re
- fress — to eat or snack, especially often or in large quantities.
- frets — Plural form of fret.
- frett — A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
- freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- freya — the goddess of love and fertility, sister of Frey, daughter of Njord; one of the Vanir.
- frore — frozen; frosty.
- garre — to compel; cause
- genre — a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music.
- glare — a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
- glore — (archaic) to glare.
- gored — to make or furnish with a gore or gores.
- goren — Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- gores — Plural form of gore.
- gorey — Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- great — unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city.
- grebe — any diving bird of the family Podicipedidae, related to the loons, but having a rudimentary tail and lobate rather than webbed toes.
- grebo — (slang, UK, predominantly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
- grece — a flight of steps, or a single step in a flight
- greco — (Domenikos Theotocopoulos) 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete.
- greed — excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- greek — of or relating to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.
- green — of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.
- greer — Germaine, born 1939, Australian feminist and writer.
- grees — favor; goodwill.
- greet — to lament; bewail.
- grefa — griefo.
- grege — to make heavy
- gregg — John Robert, 1864–1948, U.S. educator: inventor of a system of shorthand.
- grego — a short, hooded coat of thick, coarse fabric, originally worn in the eastern Mediterranean countries.
- grein — to desire fervently
- greta — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- greys — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- guare — John, born 1938, U.S. playwright.
- gyres — Plural form of gyre.
- haire — Obsolete spelling of hair.
- hared — any rodentlike mammal of the genus Lepus, of the family Leporidae, having long ears, a divided upper lip, and long hind limbs adapted for leaping.
- harem — the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
- hares — Plural form of hare.
- harre — (obsolete) A hinge.
- havre — a seaport in N France, at the mouth of the Seine.
- heere — Obsolete spelling of hear.
- heire — Archaic spelling of heir.
- herem — the most severe form of excommunication, formerly used by rabbis in sentencing wrongdoers, usually for an indefinite period of time.
- heres — an heir.
- hired — Simple past tense and past participle of hire.
- hiree — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hirer — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hire.
- hoare — Sir Samuel John Gurney [gur-nee] /ˈgɜr ni/ (Show IPA), 1st Viscount Templewood [tem-puh l-woo d] /ˈtɛm pəlˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1959, British statesman.
- horeb — a mountain sometimes identified with Mount Sinai.