5-Letter Words with R: page 4

All 2,403 five-letter words with R: page 4 of 7

M

• merit7n. A claim to commendation or a reward.
• merle7n. A Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
• meron7n. Either of the pair of entities that together make up an instanton.
• meros7n. The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.
• merry10adj. Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
• merse7n. Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
• mersh10n. Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
• merus7n. The meropodite; the first segment of the raptorial appendage of a...
• meter7n. A device that measures things.
• metra7n. The uterus.
• metre7n. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI...
• metro7n. A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems...
• micro9adj. Very small in scale or scope.
• miler7n. An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or...
• mimer9n. Someone who mimes during a performance of a song.
• minar7n. A minaret.
• miner7n. A person who works in a mine.
• minor7adj. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or...
• mired8adj. Stuck in mud; plunged or fixed in mud.
• mirek11n. A unit of measurement for color temperature.
• mirex14n. The pesticide and fire retardant perchloropentacyclodecane, which is a...
• mirin7n. A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than saké and used in...
• mirna7n. MicroRNA.
• mirth10n. The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.
• mirza16n. An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.
• miser7n. A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated.
• misri7n. Rock sugar.
• mitra7n. A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a...
• mitre7n. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church...
• mixer14n. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
• moder8v. To moderate.
• mogra8n. Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac, syn. Mogorium sambac).
• mohar10n. The currency of the Kingdom of Nepal and adjoining parts of Videha from...
• moire7n. Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat.
• molar7n. A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
• moler7n. Synonym of molecatcher (“one who catches moles”).
• moner7n. Any member of the former kingdom Monera.
• moral7adj. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour...
• moran7n. An unmarried Maasai or Samburu warrior.
• morat7n. An ancient drink resembling mead, made with mulberries.
• moray10n. Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
• morel7n. A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper...
• mores7n. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted...
• morfa10n. A low wetland periodically flooded by salt water; a salt marsh.
• moria7n. Excessive frivolity; an inability to be serious.
• morin7n. A yellow flavonoid, extracted from fustic, once used to dye wool.
• morna7n. A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
• morne7n. The blunt head of a jousting-lance.
• moron7n. A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of...
• moros7n. A dish of black beans and white riced cooked together; congri.
• morph12n. A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an...
• morra7n. A game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand...
• morro7n. A round hill or point of land.
• morse7n. A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually...
• morto7adj. Very embarrassed or embarrassing.
• moser7n. An informer; one who tells on another.
• motor7n. A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical...
• mourn7v. To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
• mover10n. Someone who or something that moves.
• mower10n. A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass on lawns.
• mucor9n. The property of being mucid.
• mudar8n. Calotropis gigantea (crown flower, giant milkweed).
• mudra8n. Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of...
• mujra14n. A form of exotic dance in India, traditionally performed by courtesans...
• mural7n. A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
• murex14n. Any member of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
• murga8n. A stress position used as corporal punishment in parts of South Asia....
• murgh11n. Chicken.
• murid8adj. Of or belonging to the family Muridae.
• murky14adj. Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
• murra7n. An ornamental stone for vases, etc. described by Pliny, most probably...
• murre7n. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
• murri7n. A medieval Arab condiment made from fermented barley.
• murry10adv. Very, extremely.
• murse7n. A man's purse.
• murti7n. A sacred image of a deity.
• murza16n. One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, up to the 19th...
• musar7n. An itinerant musette player.
• muser7n. One who muses.
• muter7n. Something that mutes sound.
• mylar10n. A polyester film.
• myron10n. Chrism; myrrh.
• myrrh13n. A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the genus...

N

• nacre7n. A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and...
• nadir6n. The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith...
• nahor8n. Mesua ferrea (Ceylon ironwood).
• naira5n. The official currency of Nigeria. Equal to 100 kobo. (The naira...
• namer7n. One who names, or calls by name.
• naras5n. A spiny shrub, Acanthosicyos horridus, growing in Namibia and the...
• narco7n. Narcotics.
• naris5n. A nostril.
• narks9n. Nitrogen narcosis.
• narky12adj. Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging.
• narra5n. Any of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus of trees in the family...
• nasri5n. A coin formerly used as a currency unit in Tunisia from medieval to...
• navar8n. A kind of Zoroastrian priest.
• nazar14n. An eye-shaped amulet supposed to protect against the evil eye in...
• neera5n. A sweet sap extracted from the inflorescence of various species of...
• negro6adj. Relating to a black ethnicity.
• neral5n. Citral.
• nerka9n. A sockeye salmon.
• neros5n. A period of 600 years.
• nerve8n. A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels...
• nervy11adj. Having nerve; bold; brazen.
• never8adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.
• nicor7n. A sea monster.
• niger6n. An Ethiopian herb (Guizotia abyssinica), grown for its seed and edible...
• niner5n. Something nine inches long, or holding nine gallons, etc.
• niter5n. A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making...
• nitre5n. UK standard spelling of niter.
• nitro5n. The univalent NO₂ functional group.
• nomer7n. A denomination.
• noria5n. A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
• norma7n. A norm.
• north8n. The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing...
• noser5n. An indulgence in nosiness or other curiosity.
• noter5n. A small rod, usually made of wood, pressed against the melody course of...
• nupur7n. An anklet.
• nurse5n. Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.

O

• oared6adj. Having oars.
• occur9v. To happen or take place.
• ochre10n. A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.
• ocker11n. Interest on money; usury; increase.
• odori6n. An energetic Japanese style of folk dance.
• odour6n. UK standard spelling of odor.
• offer11n. A proposal that has been made.
• oiler5n. An assistant in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper...
• oiran5n. A high-status courtesan in Japan.
• okara9n. A food made from soybean pulp; a by-product of soy milk production.
• okrug10n. An administrative division of some Slavic states.
• older6adj. Elderly.
• ombre9n. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty...
• omkar11n. The symbol ॐ that represents the syllable “om” or “aum”.
• oorah8interj. The official yell for the US Marines.
• opara7n. The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of...
• opera7n. A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance...
• orach10n. Especially Atriplex hortensis.
• oracy10n. The ability to speak, and to understand spoken language.
• orale5n. A white silk veil with coloured stripes, sometimes worn by the pope.
• orate5v. To speak formally; to give a speech.
• orbed8adj. Having the form of an orb; round; spherical.
• orbit7n. An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or...
• order6n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
• oread6n. A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a...
• oreal5adj. Inhabiting high mountains.
• organ6n. The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform...
• orgue6n. Any of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with...
• oribi7n. Ourebia ourebi, a species of antelope.
• oriel5n. A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a...
• origo6n. The reference point on which a deictic relationship is based.
• orlop7n. The platform over the hold of a ship that makes up the fourth or lowest...
• ormer7n. An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the...
• oroya8n. A hanging basket attached to a cable, anciently used in South America...
• orris5n. Any of several irises that have a fragrant root, especially Iris ×...
• ortho8n. An isomer of a benzene derivative having two substituents adjacent on...
• orujo12n. A brandy from northern Spain, made from grapes.
• orval8n. A sage, of species Salvia viridis.
• oscar7n. A cichlid fish of species Astronotus ocellatus, native to South...
• osier5n. A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe...
• ostro5n. A southerly Mediterranean wind.
• other8adj. See other (determiner) below.
• otter5n. An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.
• outer5adj. Outside; external.
• outro5n. A portion of music at the end of a song.
• ovary11n. A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most...
• overo8n. A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
• overt8adj. Open and not concealed or secret.
• owler8n. The alder tree.
• owner8n. One who owns something.

P

• pacer9n. One who paces.
• padre8n. A military clergyman.
• pagar8n. A fence, in parts of Asia.
• pager8n. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice...
• pairs7n. Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
• paker11n. A vagrant, stroller.
• palar7adj. Pertaining to a pale, a vertical band or line.
• paper9n. A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a...
• param9n. Dicyandiamide.
• paran7n. A latitude where, at some longitude at a given moment in time, two...
• parch12v. To burn the surface of, to scorch.
• pardo8n. A former money of account in Portuguese India, one twentieth of a rupia.
• paren7n. A parenthesis (bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text).
• pareo7n. A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian...
• parer7n. A tool used to pare things.
• pargo8n. Common seabream, red porgy, Pagrus pagrus.
• parka11n. A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and...
• parky14adj. Of, from, or related to a park or parks generally, especially parklike.
• parle7n. Parley; talk.
• parma9n. A dish cooked in the parmigiana style.
• parmi9n. A chicken parmigiana.
• parmo9n. A north-eastern English dish of deep-fried breaded chicken topped with...
• parol7adj. Word of mouth.
• parry10v. To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).
• parsa7n. A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four...
• parse7v. To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the...
• parti7n. The basic, central, or main concept, drawing, or scheme of an...
• parts7n. Intellectual ability or learning.
• party10n. A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal...
• parvo10n. Parvovirus.
• pater7n. Father.
• paver10n. A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
• payer10n. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been...
• payor10n. One who makes a payment.
• pearl7n. Nacre; mother-of-pearl.
• peart7adj. Lively; active.
• peary10adj. Resembling pears, pear-like.
• peery10n. Spinning top.
• perch12n. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus...
• percy12n. A unit of Percocet.
• perdu8n. One placed on watch, or in ambush.
• perek11n. A chapter of a religious text.
• peril7n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
• perky14adj. Lively and often cheerful and enthusiastic.
• perlo7n. A rustic, one-pot Southern dish featuring chicken, smoked sausage, and...
• perma9v. To permakill.
• perne7v. To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
• perry10n. A fermented alcoholic beverage made from pears, similar to hard apple...
• perse7n. A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
• peter7n. The penis.
• petra7n. Stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.
• petre7n. Saltpetre.
• petro7n. A Venezuelan cryptocurrency launched in 2018, supposed to be backed by...
• phara10n. A traditional steamed dumpling made from rice flour and lentil filling...
• phare10n. Beacon.
• pharm12n. A site where organisms are produced for the creation of medicine or...
• pharo10n. A pharos; a lighthouse.
• piker11n. A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
• pilar7adj. Relating to hair.
• piner7n. An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.
• piper9n. A musician who plays a pipe.
• pirog8n. A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in...
• pirot7n. A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the...
• pizer16n. A (front) porch (on a house).
• plier7n. One who plies.
• poker11n. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs...
• polar7adj. Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the...
• poort7n. A mountain pass.
• porch12n. A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and...
• pored8adj. Having or furnished with pores.
• porgy11n. Any of several fish of the family Sparidae of seabreams.
• porin7n. Any of a class of proteins that cross cellular membranes and act as...
• porky14adj. Resembling or characteristic of pork.
• porta7n. The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves...
• porto7n. An apéritif made from port.
• porty10adj. Resembling or characteristic of port wine.
• porus7n. A pore.
• poser7n. A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
• power10n. The ability to do or undergo something.
• prana7n. Respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force.
• prang8n. An aeroplane crash.
• prank11n. A practical joke or mischievous trick.
• prase7n. A variety of cryptocrystalline of a green colour.
• prata7n. Synonym of roti prata (a type fried flatbread that is cooked over a...
• prate7n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
• prawn10n. A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
• praya10n. A promenade or drive located beside the seashore in Hong Kong.
• preem9n. The premiere of a film.
• preen7n. A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.
• prefs10n. Preferences.
• premo9adj. Excellent, attractive.
• preon7n. A hypothetical point-like particle, supposed to be a subcomponent of...
• presa7n. A symbol, such as ※ or :S:, used to indicate where a voice is to begin...
• preso7n. A presentation.
• press7n. An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
• prest7n. A loan or advance (of money).
• preta7n. A hungry ghost (a supernatural being in Buddhist folklore, the spirit...
• prexy17n. A president, especially of a college or university.
• price9n. The cost required to gain possession of something.
• prick13n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
• pride8n. A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in...
• prier7n. A person who pries.
• prill7v. To flow, spurt.
• prima9adj. Most important.
• prime9adj. First in importance, degree, or rank.
• primo9n. The principal part of a duet.
• primp11v. To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
• prink11n. The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing...
• print7adj. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
• prion7n. A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible...
• prior7adj. Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
• prise7v. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
• prism9n. An object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1).
• priss7n. A prissy person.
• privy13adj. Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
• prize16n. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by...
• probe9n. Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
• probs9adv. Synonym of probably.
• prock13n. An imaginary creature similar to the guyascutus or the sidehill gouger.
• proem9n. An introduction, preface or preamble.
• prole7n. A member of the proletariat; a proletarian.
• proll7v. To prowl or search after; to plunder, to rob.
• promo9n. An interview or monologue intended to promote a character or an...
• prone7adj. Lying face-down.
• prong8n. A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar...
• pronk11v. To jump with all four limbs at once.
• proof10n. An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a...
• props9n. Respect for, or recognition of, another person; an expression of...
• prose7n. Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
• proso7n. Panicum miliaceum, a grass used as a crop.
• pross7n. A prostitute.
• prosy10adj. Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
• proto7n. A prototype of a design.
• proud8adj. Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an...
• prove10v. To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to...
• prowl10v. To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to...
• proxy17adj. Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
• prude8n. A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who...
• prune7n. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
• pruno7n. An improvised alcoholic drink typically produced in correctional...
• pruny10adj. (Of skin) wrinkled, especially in reference to the rugosity of digits...
• pryer10n. A person who pries; a pry.
• puker11n. Someone who pukes, a vomiter.
• puree7n. A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid or paste.
• purga8n. A fine blizzard of snow in Russia.
• purge8v. To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse; to clear of...
• purry10adj. Inclined to purr; purring.
• purse7n. A small bag for carrying money.
• pyran10n. Any of a class of unsaturated heterocyclic compounds containing a ring...
• pyrex17n. A kind of heat-resistant borosilicate glass, made by mixing a high...

Q

• qadar15n. Divine intervention in the affairs of humans; fate, predestination.
• quare14adj. Queer, strange.
• quark18n. In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic...
• quart14n. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a...
• queer14adj. Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not...
• quern14n. A mill for grinding corn, especially a handmill made of two circular...
• query17n. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
• quire14n. One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or...
• quirk18n. An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about...
• quirt14n. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

R

• rabab9n. An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow.
• rabat7n. A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
• rabbi9n. A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making...
• rabid8adj. Affected with rabies.
• rabot7n. A rubber used in polishing marble.
• rabri7n. Synonym of rabadi (“Indian dessert”).
• raced8adj. Pertaining to or marked in terms of race.
• racer7n. A person who participates in races, especially an athlete.
• racks11n. Publication, distribution (of a magazine).
• racon7n. A beacon that, on detecting a radar signal, responds by transmitting a...
• radar6n. In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and...
• raden6n. The Japanese technique of inserting a board-like material, a cut-out...
• radge7adj. Violent or crazy.
• radio6n. The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other...
• radix13n. A root.
• radon6n. The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It...
• rager6n. One who rages.
• ragey9adj. Full of rage; very angry; furious.
• ragga7n. A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital...
• raggy10adj. Raglike; like a rag.
• rains5n. A rainy season; monsoon.
• rainy8adj. Pouring with rain; wet; showery.
• raion5n. An administrative unit of some Eastern European and Asian states.
• raise5v. To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• raita5n. A condiment made from seasoned yogurt used as a dip or sauce in the...
• rajah15n. A Hindu prince or ruler in India.
• rajas12n. One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that...
• rajma14n. An Indian dish of red kidney beans in a thick gravy with spices.
• rakan9n. A Japanese arhat.
• raked10adj. Sloping.
• raker9n. A person who uses a rake.
• rakhi12n. An ornamental cotton wristband tied by a girl or woman on to the wrist...
• rally8n. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is...
• ralph10v. To vomit.
• ramal7adj. Relating to a branch.
• rambo9n. A knife.
• ramen7n. Soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Japanese-Chinese...
• ramet7n. A clone (individual member of a genet).
• ramie7n. A tall, tropical Asian perennial herb, of species Boehmeria nivea...
• rammy12adj. Of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank.
• ramus7n. A small spray or twig.
• rance7n. A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has...
• ranch10n. A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
• rando6adj. Random; arbitrary.
• randy9adj. Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.
• range6n. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
• rangy9adj. Slender and long of limb; lanky.
• ranny8n. A shrew (the animal).
• ranty8adj. Characterised by ranting.
• rapee7n. A victim of rape.
• raper7n. One who commits rape; a rapist.
• rapey10adj. Sexually aggressive or inappropriate in a way that causes fear or...
• raphe10n. A seamlike ridge or furrow on an organ, bodily tissue, or other...
• rapid8adj. Very swift or quick.
• rasam7n. A spicy South Indian soup made with tamarind juice.
• rashi8n. A zodiac sign.
• rashy11adj. Exhibiting a rash.
• rasic7adj. Relating to rasa.
• raspy10adj. Rough, raw.
• rasse5n. Viverricula indica, the small Indian civet.
• rasta5n. Rastafarian.
• rasul5n. A prophet or messenger in Islam; Muhammad, as a special messenger of...
• ratch10n. A ratchet wheel.
• rated6adj. Maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function...
• ratel5n. Synonym of honey badger.
• rater5n. One who provides a rating or assessment.
• rates5n. Taxes, usually on property, levied by local government.
• rathe8adj. Ripening or blooming early.
• ratio5n. A number representing a comparison between two named things.
• ratte5n. A kind of small potato with a nutty flavour and smooth, buttery texture.
• ratti5n. A traditional Indian unit of measure for mass, approximately 0.1215...

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