| aigret | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigrette |
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| banneret | (noun) a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command | Synonyms: knight banneret, knight of the square flag |
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| beret | (noun) a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth | - |
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| buret | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: burette |
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| cabaret | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: floor show, floorshow |
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| (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: club, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
| carburet | (verb) combine with carbon | - |
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| caret | (noun) a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text | - |
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| cellaret | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: minibar |
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| cigaret | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
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| claret | (noun) a dark purplish-red color | - |
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| (noun) dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine | Synonyms: red Bordeaux |
| (verb) drink claret | - |
| curet | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curette |
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| egret | (noun) any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | - |
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| ferret | (noun) domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits | - |
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| (noun) musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct | Synonyms: black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes |
| (verb) search and discover through persistent investigation | Synonyms: ferret out |
| (verb) hunt with ferrets | - |
| (verb) hound or harry relentlessly | - |
| floret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floweret |
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| floweret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floret |
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| fret | (noun) a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief) | Synonyms: Greek fret, Greek key, key pattern |
| (noun) a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion | Synonyms: worn spot |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: lather, stew, sweat, swither |
| (verb) wear away or erode | Synonyms: eat away |
| (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, erode |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, rub, scratch |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: choke, gag |
| (verb) decorate with an interlaced design | - |
| (verb) carve a pattern into | - |
| (verb) be agitated or irritated | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in | - |
| (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, grate, rankle |
| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fuss, niggle |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, gall |
| (verb) provide (a musical instrument) with frets | - |
| garret | (noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | Synonyms: attic, loft |
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| imaret | (noun) a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey | - |
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| interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
| lazaret | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazarette, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| leveret | (noun) a young hare especially one in its first year | - |
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| minaret | (noun) slender tower with balconies | - |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| pomfret | (noun) deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food | Synonyms: Brama raii |
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| regret | (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: rue, ruefulness, sorrow |
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| (verb) decline formally or politely | - |
| (verb) express with regret | - |
| (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: repent, rue |
| (verb) feel sad about the loss or absence of | - |
| reinterpret | (verb) assign a new or different meaning to | - |
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| (verb) interpret from a different viewpoint | Synonyms: re-explain |
| ret | (verb) place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue | - |
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| sayeret | (noun) Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions | Synonyms: Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Matkal |
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| secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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| (adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
| (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
| (adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
| (adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
| (adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
| (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
| (adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
| (adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
| (adjective) communicated covertly | - |
| (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, mystery |
| (noun) something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on) | - |
| (noun) information known only to a special group | Synonyms: arcanum |
| skirret | (noun) an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root | Synonyms: Sium sisarum |
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| solleret | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: sabaton |
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| swimmeret | (noun) one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming | Synonyms: pleopod |
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| taboret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: tabouret |
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| tabouret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: taboret |
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| turret | (noun) a small tower extending above a building | - |
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| (noun) a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation | Synonyms: gun enclosure, gun turret |