5 Letter Words That Start With RE

revel

Noun : An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

Noun : A kind of dance.

Noun : A wake for the dead.

realm

Noun : (now law and rhetoric) A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom.

Noun : (fantasy, roleplaying games) An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.

Noun : (obsolete) The spiritual state of which God is the head; the Kingdom of Heaven.

reach

Verb : (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

Verb : (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.

Verb : (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.

regal

Adjective : Of or relating to royalty.

Adjective : Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.

Adjective : Befitting a king, or emperor.

remit

Verb : (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

Verb : (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

reign

Noun : The exercise of sovereign power.

Noun : The period during which a monarch rules.

Noun : The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.

relic

Noun : That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.

Noun : Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons.

Noun : (religion) A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration.

rebut

Verb : To drive back or beat back; to repulse.

Verb : To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

rebel

Noun : A person who resists an established authority, often violently.

Noun : (US, historical) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier.

Verb : (intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.

repel

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).

reave

Verb : (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

Verb : (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Verb : (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

reply

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

Verb : (intransitive) To act or gesture in response.

Verb : (intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.

reedy

Adjective : Full of, or edged with, reeds.

Adjective : (of a sound or voice) High and thin in tone.

Adjective : (of a person) Tall and thin.

relax

Verb : (transitive) To calm down.

Verb : (transitive) To make something loose.

Verb : (intransitive) To become loose.

refer

Verb : (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)

Verb : (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

Verb : (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.

redux

Adjective : (of a topic, attributive, postpositive) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

Noun : A theme or topic redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

relay

Noun : (hunting, rare) A new set of hounds.

Noun : (now chiefly historical) A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.

Noun : (by extension) A new set of anything.

ready

Adjective : Prepared for immediate action or use.

Adjective : Inclined; apt to happen.

Adjective : Liable at any moment.

recur

Verb : Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.

Verb : (medicine) Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.

Verb : Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.

reeve

Noun : (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

Noun : (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.

Noun : (military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.

retro

Adjective : Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.

Adjective : Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto.

Noun : (uncountable) Past fashions or trends.

retch

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.

Noun : An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

react

Verb : (intransitive) To act in response.

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.

Verb : (physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force

reify

Verb : (transitive) To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.

revie

Verb : (obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.

Verb : (obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.

Verb : (obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.

recit

Noun : A short story.

Noun : A narration.

Noun : (music) A recitative.

renew

Verb : (transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.

Verb : (transitive) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.

Verb : (theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

rebus

Noun : An arrangement of pictures, symbols, and/or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.

Noun : (linguistics) A pictographic component of a compound character (e.g. sinograph) used to hint at the pronunciation of the compound.

Noun : (specifically, heraldry) An arrangement of pictures on a coat of arms which suggests the name of the person to whom it belongs.

recap

Verb : To seal (something) again with a cap.

Verb : (Canada, US) To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing on a new outer portion.

Noun : A tire that has had new tread glued on.

rev up

Verb : (idiomatic) To increase the speed of an engine, especially that of a stationary motor car.

Verb : (by extension, transitive) To make (someone or something) more active.

Verb : (by extension, intransitive) To become more active.

resto

Noun : (informal) A restaurant.

Noun : (informal) A restoration (of an old car or building, etc.).

Noun : A surname.

reule

Noun : Obsolete form of rule. [A regulation, law, guideline.]

Verb : Obsolete form of rule. [(transitive, stative) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.]

recto

Noun : The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.

Noun : (printing) The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number.

Noun : (law) A writ of right.

refit

Noun : The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.

Verb : (transitive) To fit again; to put back into its place.

Verb : (transitive) To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.

reuse

Noun : The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable.

Noun : The act of using again, or in another place.

Verb : To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).

rebar

Noun : (countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.

Noun : (uncountable) A grid-shaped system of such bars.

Verb : (transitive) To reinforce with bars of this kind.

re-up

Verb : (US, military) To reenlist.

Verb : (intransitive) To sign up again.

Verb : (informal) To renew (e.g. a library book, a lease, a contract).

resin

Noun : A viscous water-insoluble hydrocarbon exudate of certain plants, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications.

Noun : Any synthetic compound of similar properties.

Verb : (transitive) To apply resin to.

reset

Verb : To set back to the initial state.

Verb : To set to zero.

Verb : (transitive) To adjust; to set or position differently.

revue

Noun : A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.

Noun : Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs.

rests

Noun : (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.

Noun : (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.

Noun : (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.

refel

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).

renay

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To take back, to recant (something one says or believes).

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To reject, to deny the truth of (a statement).

resty

Adjective : Restive, resistant to control.

Adjective : Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy.

redif

Noun : A reserve force in the Turkish army, or a soldier of the reserve.

recal

Noun : Obsolete spelling of recall. [The action or fact of calling someone or something back.]

Noun : Misspelling of recall. [The action or fact of calling someone or something back.]

Verb : Obsolete spelling of recall. [(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).]

repay

Verb : Synonym of pay back in all senses.

Verb : (transitive) To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.

Verb : (transitive) To give in return; requite.

rehab

Noun : (informal) Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.

Noun : (informal) An institution for rehabilitation.

Noun : (firefighting) A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.

rerun

Noun : An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.

Noun : (US) A television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.

Noun : (publishing) Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc.

reiki

Noun : A Japanese form of pseudomedicine that involves transferring chi through one's palms.

remex

Noun : A quill.

Noun : The flight feather of a bird.

reeky

Adjective : Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul.

Adjective : Emitting a reek; smelly.

reals

Adjective : True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

Adjective : Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

Adjective : Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

rekey

Verb : (computing) To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before.

Verb : To modify (a lock or its cylinder) to change which keys will open it.

Verb : (social sciences) To change the key or tenor of; to reframe.

regen

Noun : (countable) A regenerative radio receiver.

Noun : (informal) Clipping of regeneration. [Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.]

Noun : (uncountable, rail transport, automotive) Short for regenerative braking. [(rail transport, automotive, electrical engineering) A form of braking used on some electric vehicles in conjunction with the main braking system, where kinetic energy from braking is converted into electricity and fed back into the power supply by using the traction motors as generators.]

repub

Noun : (US politics, informal) Clipping of Republican. [(US politics) A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.]

Noun : (informal) Clipping of Republic (used in the full names of countries). [A small city in Republic County, Kansas, United States.]

Noun : (publishing, informal) Clipping of republished.

reism

Noun : (philosophy) A form of concretism stating that (i) every object is a body and (ii) no object is a state or relation, or property.

repug

Adjective : (US, slang) Alternative form of repugnant [Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.]

reins

Noun : (archaic) The kidneys.

Noun : The lower part of the back.

Noun : The loins.

reich

Noun : A German empire, kingdom or nation; its territory or government.

Noun : (in particular) The Third Reich; Nazi Germany.

Noun : (chiefly derogatory) Any empire, especially one that is imperialist, tyrannical, and/or racist.

redan

Noun : A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V.

rejig

Verb : (transitive) To rearrange or tweak (something), especially in order to improve it or make it suitable for some purpose.

Verb : (transitive, dated) To provide (a place, etc.) with new equipment or machinery; to reequip, to refit.

Verb : (transitive, mining) To separate or sort (ore) again in a jigger or sieve.

reams

Noun : (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.

Verb : (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cream; mantle; foam; froth.

Verb : (transitive) To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.

retem

Noun : A shrub with white flowers, possibly Retama raetam; the juniper of the (King James Version) Old Testament.

reaps

Verb : (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine

Verb : (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.

Verb : (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.

redub

Verb : (transitive) To give another name or title to; to dub again.

Verb : (transitive) To dub (video material) again; to provide with a new soundtrack.

Noun : A video re-edited in any way an editor wants.

reeks

Noun : A strong unpleasant smell.

Noun : (Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

Verb : (intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.

refix

Verb : To fix again.

regle

Verb : (obsolete) Alternative spelling of reigle (“to rule/govern”). [(obsolete) To regulate; to govern.]

rello

Noun : Alternative form of relo [(Australia, colloquial, informal) A relative.]

recut

Verb : to cut again.

renga

Noun : A form of Japanese verse in which short poems are connected together, the origin of haikai and haiku.

reech

Noun : (dialectal) Smoke.

Verb : (dialectal) Alternative form of reek. [(intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.]

Verb : Obsolete form of reach. [(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).]

remis

Noun : (archaic, chess) A draw.

resee

Verb : (transitive) To see again or anew.

Noun : An occasion of seeing again or anew.

resis

Adjective : (real estate, property law) Clipping of residential. [Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places.]

Noun : (real estate, property law) Clipping of residential real estate.

reste

Noun : "Reste" (Stay) is a song performed by Congolese-French singer and rapper Gims with the participation of British singer Sting, released on 23 August 2019.

reard

Noun : (dialectal, obsolete) A voice; a sound.

Noun : (dialectal, obsolete) Fame, renown.

resus

Noun : (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of resuscitation. [The act of resuscitating.]

reing

Noun : A surname.

rebis

Noun : (alchemy, fiction) The end product of the alchemical magnum opus, a reunion of opposing qualities such as spirit and matter or male and female, represented by an androgynous being.

Noun : An androgyne or hermaphrodite.

rethe

Adjective : (Now chiefly dialectal) (of persons) Fierce; cruel; savage; stern; zealous; ardent; keen.

Adjective : (Now chiefly dialectal) (of things) Terrible; dreadful; severe.

Verb : (Now chiefly dialectal) Furiously; violently; wildly.

renal

Adjective : Pertaining to the kidneys.

redox

Adjective : (chemistry) Of or relating to any reaction in which oxidation and reduction occur simultaneously.

Noun : (rare) (chemistry) A reaction in which an oxidation and a reduction occur simultaneously; a reaction in which electrons are transferred.

Verb : (transitive) To subject to a redox reaction.

rebec

Noun : (music) An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.

recce

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, military slang) Reconnaissance.

Verb : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, military slang) Reconnoitre.

renin

Noun : (biochemistry) A circulating enzyme released by mammalian kidneys that converts angiotensinogen to angiotensin I. Due to its activity which ultimately leads to the formation of angiotensin II and aldosterone, this hormone plays a role in maintaining blood pressure.

recon

Noun : (chiefly US, military slang) reconnaissance.

Verb : (chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.

Noun : (genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.

retry

Verb : (ambitransitive) To try or attempt again.

Verb : (transitive, law) To try judicially a second time.

Noun : Another attempt.

remix

Noun : (music) A rearrangement of an older piece of music, possibly including various cosmetic changes.

Noun : (music) A piece of music formed by combining existing pieces of music together, possibly including various other cosmetic changes

Verb : (transitive) To mix again.

rente

Noun : In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc. that represent government indebtedness.

Noun : Obsolete spelling of rent. [A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.]

reata

Noun : (Texas) A lariat or lasso.

reefy

Adjective : containing reefs.

rents

Noun : Alternative spelling of 'rents

retie

Verb : To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before.

recta

Noun : (anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.

reefs

Noun : a novel by Kevin O'Donnell Jr. published in 1981.

rebbe

Noun : (Judaism) The spiritual leader of a Hasidic Jewish community.

regan

Noun : A surname from Irish from Irish Ó Riagáin, variant of Reagan.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A female given name transferred from the surname or from the name of the evil daughter of King Lear. William Shakespeare may have got the name from the ultimately same Irish source.

reais

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