5-letter words containing re
- houre — Obsolete spelling of hour.
- imare — Institute of Marine Engineers
- in re — in the matter of.
- indre — a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- inure — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- irene — Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- irrep — (mathematics) An irreducible representation.
- isere — a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- jared — (in the Book of Mormon) the eponymous ancestor of the Jaredites.
- jerez — Also called Jerez de la Frontera [th e lah frawn-te-rah] /ðɛ lɑ frɔnˈtɛ rɑ/ (Show IPA). Formerly Xeres. a city in SW Spain: noted for its sherry.
- jurel — any of several carangid food fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, found in warm seas.
- kafre — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
- karel — Language featured in Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to Computer Programming, Richard E. Pattis, Wiley 1981.
- karen — a group of people of eastern and southern Burma (Myanmar).
- karez — (in parts of central southern Asia) a qanat.
- kerel — a chap or fellow
- keres — a member of any of seven Indian pueblos in N.Mex., mostly on the Rio Grande
- korea — a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: a kingdom prior to 1910; under Japanese rule 1910–45; now divided at 38° N into North Korea and South Korea. Compare Korean War.
- krebs — Sir Hans Adolf [hahns ah-dawlf;; English hanz ad-olf,, ey-dolf] /hɑns ˈɑ dɔlf;; English hænz ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–81, German biochemist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- kreep — a lunar substance that is high in potassium, rare earth elements and phosphorus
- krems — a city in NE Austria, on the Danube.
- kreon — Creon.
- krete — Crete
- krewe — (especially in New Orleans) a private social club that sponsors balls, parades, etc., as part of the Mardi Gras festivities.
- laree — lari.
- lares — (initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- laure — (language) A language for knowledge representation combining object-oriented features and logic programming. It has set operations, object-oriented exception handling and a polymorphic type system.
- libre — (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
- litre — a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- livre — a former money of account and group of coins of France, issued in coin form first in gold, then in silver, finally in copper, and discontinued in 1794.
- loire — a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- lorel — A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.
- loren — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lores — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
- lorre — Peter (László Loewenstein) 1904–64, U.S. film actor, born in Hungary.
- loure — a slow dance of French origin
- lucre — monetary reward or gain; money.
- lured — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurer — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- lurex — Alternative capitalization of Lurex.
- lyres — Plural form of lyre.
- madre — mother1 .
- maire — a tall native New Zealand tree, olea cunninghami, with dark brown wood
- mares — Plural form of mare.
- mered — purified or refined
- meres — Plural form of mere.
- metre — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- mired — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- mires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mire.