5-letter words containing c, i, r
- circs — circumstances
- cirio — boojum tree.
- cirri — cirrus (sense 1)
- citer — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- clair — René (rəne), real name René Chomette. 1898–1981, French film director; noted for his comedies including An Italian Straw Hat (1928) and pioneering sound films such as Sous les toits de Paris (1930); later films include Les Belles de nuit (1952)
- corgi — A corgi is a type of small dog with short legs and a pointed nose.
- coria — plural of corium.
- corti — Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- craic — If you are talking about something that you did and you say 'the craic was great', or 'it was a good craic', you mean that you had a really good time, especially because everyone was talking, joking, and laughing.
- craig — Edward Gordon. 1872–1966, English theatrical designer, actor, and director. His nonrealistic scenic design greatly influenced theatre in Europe and the US
- craxi — Bettino (beˈtiːno). 1934–2000, Italian socialist statesman; prime minister (1983–87)
- crias — a baby vicuna, llama, guanaco, or alpaca.
- cribs — A young child's bed with barred or latticed sides.
- crick — If you have a crick in your neck or in your back, you have a pain there caused by muscles becoming stiff.
- cried — cry
- crier — a person or animal that cries
- cries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cry.
- crile — George Washington1864-1943; U.S. surgeon
- crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
- crimp — If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
- crims — Plural form of crim.
- crine — the hair
- crios — a multicoloured woven woollen belt traditionally worn by men in the Aran Islands
- crips — Plural form of crip.
- crise — crisis.
- crisp — Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- crit. — critic
- crith — a unit of weight for gases, equal to the weight of one litre of hydrogen at standard pressure and temperature (0.09 grams)
- crits — Plural form of crit.
- crius — a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
- croci — Plural form of crocus.
- csiro — Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
- curia — the papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
- curie — Marie (mari). 1867–1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and was awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry (1911)
- curio — A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare.
- curli — curled hairlike processes on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds
- cyril — Saint. ?827–869 ad, Greek Christian theologian, missionary to the Moravians and inventor of the Cyrillic alphabet; he and his brother Saint Methodius were called the Apostles of the Slavs. Feast day: Feb 14 or May 11
- cyrix — (company) A microprocessor manufacturer. They produce an Intel 486 equivalent - the Cy486SLC and a Pentium equivalent - the Cyrix 6x86.
- daric — a gold coin of ancient Persia
- dicer — to cut into small cubes.
- dirac — Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- doric — of or relating to Doris, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
- drice — frozen carbon dioxide
- ercim — European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics. An association of European research organisations promoting cooperative research on key issues in Information Technology.
- erica — A plant of the genus Erica (family Ericaceae), esp. (in gardening) heather.
- farci — filled with with seasoned bread crumbs or other savory matter; stuffed.
- frick — Henry Clay, 1849–1919, U.S. industrialist, art patron, and philanthropist.
- frics — Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- grick — /grik/ (WPI, first used by Tim Haven to describe "grick trigonometry", a shortcut method of determing attack angles in grid-based games like Star Trek) Any integral increment of measurement. E.g. "Please turn the stereo up a few gricks".