6-letter words containing a, r, i, s
- crasis — the fusion or contraction of two adjacent vowels into one
- crista — a structure resembling a ridge or crest, such as that formed by folding of the inner membrane of a mitochondrion
- darius — (Codomannus) died 330 b.c, king of Persia 336–330.
- dinars — Plural form of dinar.
- disarm — to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
- disbar — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- drains — Plural form of drain.
- easier — not hard or difficult; requiring no great labor or effort: a book that is easy to read; an easy victory.
- faires — Plural form of faire.
- fakirs — Plural form of fakir.
- ferias — Plural form of feria.
- flairs — Plural form of flair.
- frails — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
- fraise — Fortification. a defense consisting of pointed stakes projecting from the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position.
- friars — Plural form of friar.
- friska — a fast section in the music of a Hungarian folk dance or in a piece of music of this style
- garish — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- gisarm — Archaic form of gisarme.
- glairs — the white of an egg.
- grails — Plural form of grail.
- grains — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- gratis — without charge or payment; free: The manufacturer provided an extra set of coat buttons gratis.
- harish — Like a hare.
- harris — Benjamin, c1660–c1720, English journalist who published the first newspaper in America 1690.
- hijras — Plural form of hijra.
- icarus — Also, Ikaros. Classical Mythology. a youth who attempted to escape from Crete with wings of wax and feathers but flew so high that his wings melted from the heat of the sun, and he plunged to his death in the sea.
- ikaros — Icarus.
- instar — an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- irades — Plural form of irade.
- ishtar — the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.
- isobar — Meteorology. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.
- israel — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- istria — a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- jagirs — Plural form of jagir.
- kafirs — Plural form of kafir.
- kairos — A propitious moment for decision or action.
- kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
- kauris — Plural form of kauri.
- kraits — Plural form of krait.
- lairds — Plural form of laird.
- larisa — a city in E Thessaly, in E Greece.
- liards — Plural form of liard.
- lidars — Plural form of lidar.
- lisgar — Sir John Young, 1807–76, Canadian political leader: governor general 1869–72.
- marais — a swamp or bayou.
- marias — a female given name, form of Mary.
- marish — a marsh.
- marist — a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- mbiras — Plural form of mbira.