5-letter words containing r, l
- foirl — Fiber Optic InterRepeater Link
- forel — a slipcase for a book.
- forli — a city in N Italy, SE of Bologna.
- forml — 1. (language) Formal Object Role Modeling Language. 2. (event) Forth Modification Lab.
- frail — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
- frill — a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle.
- friml — Rudolf, 1881–1972, U.S. composer and pianist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- furls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furl.
- girls — Plural form of girl.
- girly — featuring nude or scantily clad young women: a girlie show; girlie magazines.
- girlz — Informal spelling of girls.
- glair — the white of an egg.
- glare — a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
- glark — /glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally "glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because glork was already an established jargon term. Compare grok, zen.
- glary — smooth and slippery, as ice.
- glaur — mud or mire
- gloar — (obsolete, intransitive) To squint; to stare.
- glore — (archaic) to glare.
- glork — /glork/ 1. Used as a name for just about anything. See foo. 2. Similar to glitch, but usually used reflexively. "My program just glorked itself." See also glark.
- glory — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- glour — Alternative spelling of glower.
- gluer — One who glues.
- gnarl — a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- goral — a short-horned goat antelope, Naemorhedus goral, of the mountainous regions of southeastern Asia: an endangered species.
- graal — ("Grail") General Recursive Applicative and Algorithmic Language. FP with polyadic combinators. "Graal: A Functional Programming System with Uncurryfied Combinators and its Reduction Machine", P. Bellot in ESOP 86, G. Goos ed, LNCS 213, Springer 1986.
- grail — (usually initial capital letter). Also called Holy Grail. a cup or chalice that in medieval legend was associated with unusual powers, especially the regeneration of life and, later, Christian purity, and was much sought after by medieval knights: identified with the cup used at the Last Supper and given to Joseph of Arimathea.
- grilf — Girl-friend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo incarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992.
- grill — a grating or openwork barrier, as for a gate, usually of metal and often of decorative design.
- growl — to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility: The dog growled at the mail carrier.
- gruel — a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
- gular — Zoology. the upper part of the throat or gullet. the front or forward part of the neck.
- gurly — (of weather or the sea) stormy or rough
- gyral — gyratory.
- haler — heller2 (def 1).
- harle — A bird, the red-breasted merganser.
- herls — Plural form of herl.
- herzl — Theodor [tey-aw-dohr] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdoʊr/ (Show IPA), 1860–1904, Hungarian-born Austrian Jewish writer and journalist: founder of the political Zionist movement.
- hilar — Botany. the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta. the nucleus of a granule of starch.
- holer — One which holes, perforates etc.
- horal — of or relating to an hour or hours; hourly.
- hrolf — Rollo (def 1).
- hurls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurl.
- hurly — commotion; hurly-burly.
- idler — the state or quality of being idle.
- iller — Comparative form of ill.
- irbil — a town in N Iraq: built on the site of ancient Arbela.
- jalor — any of a wide variety of East Indian rowing and sailing ships.
- jarls — Plural form of jarl.
- jural — pertaining to law; legal.
- jurel — any of several carangid food fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, found in warm seas.