6-letter words containing c, i, r
- curial — one of the political subdivisions of each of the three tribes of ancient Rome.
- curies — Plural form of curie.
- curing — the process of preserving food
- curios — any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- curite — a red-orange radioactive mineral, the hydrated oxide of uranium and lead
- curium — a silvery-white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium. Symbol: Cm; atomic no: 96; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Cm: 1.6 x 107 years; valency: 3 and 4; relative density: 13.51 (calculated); melting pt: 1345±400°C
- currie — to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices: to curry eggs.
- curtin — John Joseph. 1885–1945, Australian statesman; prime minister of Australia (1941–45)
- curtis — a masculine name: dim. Curt
- curvi- — curved or bent
- cuvier — Georges (Jean-Leopold-Nicolas-Frédéric) (ʒɔrʒ), Baron. 1769–1832, French zoologist and statesman; founder of the sciences of comparative anatomy and palaeontology
- cybrid — a hybrid cell, being a fusion of a whole cell with a cytoplasm, containing a nuclear genome from one source and a mitochondrial genome from another
- cymric — the Welsh language
- cyprid — Any freshwater ostracod of the family Cyprididae.
- cypris — a member of a genus of small bivalve freshwater crustaceans
- dardic — belonging or relating to a group of languages spoken in Kashmir, N Pakistan, and E Afghanistan, regarded as a subbranch of the Indic branch of the Indo-European family but showing certain Iranian characteristics
- deicer — a device or a chemical substance for preventing or removing ice.
- dermic — dermal
- diarch — (of a vascular bundle) having two strands of xylem
- dicier — unpredictable; risky; uncertain.
- dicker — If you say that people are dickering about something, you mean that they are arguing or disagreeing about it, often in a way that you think is foolish or unnecessary.
- direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- dreich — (Scotland, Northern Ireland) Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary.
- driech — dree.
- drinck — Obsolete form of drink.
- droich — a dwarf
- dromic — of, relating to, or resembling a racetrack
- eclair — a finger-shaped cream puff, filled with whipped cream, custard, or pastry cream, often coated with icing.
- Écurie — team of motor-racing cars
- eirack — a young hen in its first year
- enrich — Improve or enhance the quality or value of.
- eremic — pertaining to deserts
- erotic — Of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
- erucic — Of, pertaining to, or derived from plants of the genus Eruca.
- fabric — a cloth made by weaving, knitting, or felting fibers: woolen fabrics.
- ferric — of or containing iron, especially in the trivalent state.
- fiacre — a small horse-drawn carriage.
- fictor — An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.
- fierce — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- formic — of or relating to ants.
- fricht — a fright
- frisch — Karl von [kahrl von;; German kahrl fuh n] /kɑrl vɒn;; German kɑrl fən/ (Show IPA), 1886–1982, Austrian zoologist: Nobel Prize in Physiology 1973.
- frisco — San Francisco.
- frolic — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- garcia — Jerome John ("Jerry") 1942–95, U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
- garlic — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- genric — Pertaining to genre.
- gricer — (informal) A railway enthusiast.
- grinch — a person or thing that spoils or dampens the pleasure of others.
- gritch — /grich/ 1. A complaint (often caused by a glitch). 2. To complain. Often verb-doubled: "Gritch gritch". 3. A synonym for glitch (as verb or noun).