| arrears | (noun) an unpaid overdue debt | - |
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| (noun) the state of being behind in payments | - |
| drear | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| drearily | (adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: dismally |
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| dreariness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| dreary | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise | Synonyms: drab |
| firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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| forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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| (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
| prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| rear | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rearward |
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| (noun) the side that goes last or is not normally seen | Synonyms: back |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the back of a military formation or procession | - |
| (noun) the side of an object that is opposite its front | Synonyms: back end, backside |
| (noun) the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer | Synonyms: back |
| (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: erect, put up, raise, set up |
| (verb) stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds | Synonyms: rise up |
| (verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: erect |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, parent, raise |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: lift, rise |
| rearguard | (noun) a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body | - |
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| rearing | (adjective) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile | Synonyms: rampant |
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| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, upbringing |
| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: nurture, raising |
| rearm | (verb) arm anew | Synonyms: re-arm |
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| (verb) arm again | - |
| rearmament | (noun) the act of arming again | - |
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| rearmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: backmost, hindermost, hindmost |
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| rearrange | (verb) put into a new order or arrangement | - |
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| rearrangement | (noun) changing an arrangement | - |
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| rearward | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rear |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: reverse |
| (noun) direction toward the rear | - |
| (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, backwards, rearwards |
| rearwards | (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, backwards, rearward |
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| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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