5-letter words starting with r
- regan — (in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters. Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- regel — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- reger — Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1873–1916, German composer and pianist.
- reges — Rex (sense 2)
- regex — The GNU regular expression matching library. See also Rx.
- reggy — a male given name, form of Reginald.
- regie — a government monopoly used mainly to raise revenue from taxes
- regin — a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- regis — a male given name.
- regle — a groove or channel for guiding a sliding door.
- regma — a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- regur — a rich, black, loamy soil found in India
- rehab — rehabilitation, especially a program or facility for treating persons addicted to drugs or alcohol or recovering from certain medical conditions: He's been sober since coming out of rehab. She checked into rehab after suffering a stroke.
- rehem — to hem (garments, etc) again
- reice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- reich — Stephen Michael ("Steve") born 1936, U.S. composer.
- reify — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- reign — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- reiki — a form of therapy in which the practitioner is believed to channel energy into the patient in order to encourage healing or restore wellbeing
- reims — a city in NE France: scene of the coronation of most French monarchs. Pop: 188 078 (2006)
- reink — a fluid or viscous substance used for writing or printing.
- reins — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reist — (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go; balk.
- reith — John (Charles Walsham), 1st Baron. 1889–1971, British public servant: first general manager (1922–27) and first director general (1927–38) of the BBC
- reive — to go on a plundering raid
- rejig — If someone rejigs an organization or a piece of work, they arrange or organize it in a different way, in order to improve it.
- rejon — a spear used to kill a bull in bullfighting
- rekey — to fit with different pins and a different key.
- relax — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- relay — a series of persons relieving one another or taking turns; shift.
- relic — a surviving memorial of something past.
- relig — religion
- reman — to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- remap — map again
- remen — an ancient Egyptian measurement unit of length
- remex — one of the flight feathers of the wing.
- remit — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
- remix — to mix again.
- remus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- renal — of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- renan — Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1823–92, French philologist, historian, and critic.
- renay — a person who disowns an organization, country, or belief system
- renee — a female given name, French form of Renata.
- renew — to begin or take up again, as an acquaintance, a conversation, etc.; resume.
- renga — linked verse.
- reni- — kidney or kidneys
- renin — a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- rente — revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- rents — an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure.
- reoil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.