6-letter words containing c, i, r
- script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- shicer — Slang. a swindler.
- siccar — sure; certain
- sicker — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- sirach — Son of, Jesus (def 2).
- sirica — John J(oseph) 1904–1992, U.S. jurist: chief judge, district court for District of Columbia 1971–74; tried Watergate cases 1973–74.
- slicer — a thin-bladed knife or implement used for slicing, especially food: a cheese slicer.
- smirch — to discolor or soil; spot or smudge with or as with soot, dust, dirt, etc.
- sorbic — a European tree, Sorbus domestica.
- spiric — a type of curve
- steric — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- strich — the screech owl
- strick — a group of any of the major bast fibers, as flax or jute, prepared for conversion into sliver form.
- strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- syriac — a form of Aramaic used by various Eastern Churches.
- tercio — a regiment of Spanish or Italian infantry
- thoric — a grayish-white, lustrous, somewhat ductile and malleable, radioactive metallic element present in monazite: used as a source of nuclear energy, as a coating on sun-lamp and vacuum-tube filament coatings, and in alloys. Symbol: Th; atomic weight: 232.038; atomic number: 90; specific gravity: 11.7.
- thrice — three times, as in succession; on three occasions or in three ways.
- ticker — a telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically prints stock prices, market reports, etc., on a paper tape.
- tierce — an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- tmrcie — /tmerk'ee/, (MIT) A denizen of TMRC.
- tragic — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
- triact — a sponge spicule with three rays
- tricar — an automobile with three wheels
- tricel — a kind of rayon
- tricep — a triceps muscle, especially the one at the back of the upper arm.
- tricks — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- tricot — a warp-knit fabric of various natural or synthetic fibers, as wool, silk, or nylon, having fine vertical ribs on the face and horizontal ribs on the back, used especially for making garments.
- tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- turkic — a family of closely related languages of southwest, central, and northern Asia and eastern Europe, including Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Uzbek, Kirghiz, and Yakut.
- twicer — Slang. a two-time loser.
- uracil — Biochemistry. a pyrimidine base, C 4 H 4 N 2 O 2 , that is one of the fundamental components of RNA, in which it forms base pairs with adenine. Symbol: U.
- uralic — a family of languages that comprises Finno-Ugric and Samoyed as subfamilies. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian belong to Uralic.
- uranic — of or relating to the heavens; astronomical: uranic principles.
- uratic — a salt of uric acid.
- urchin — a mischievous boy.
- uremic — pertaining to uremia.
- uretic — of, relating to, or occurring in the urine.
- urico- — uric acid
- urtica — a nettle which yields a flax-like fibre
- vicary — the office or position of a vicar
- victor — (Dauferius) 1027–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1086–87.
- vitric — of or relating to glass.
- wicker — a slender, pliant twig; osier; withe.
- wincer — One who, or that which, winces.
- wisc-r — a group of intelligence tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) later revised (WAIS-R) the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) later revised (WISC-R) the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale, no longer used, all of which emphasize performance and verbal skills and give separate scores for subtests in vocabulary, arithmetic, memory span, assembly of objects, and other abilities.
- yttric — Of or pertaining to yttrium.
- zircon — a common mineral, zirconium silicate, ZrSiO 4 , occurring in small tetragonal crystals or grains of various colors, usually opaque: used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem when transparent.
- zurich — a canton in N Switzerland. 668 sq. mi. (1730 sq. km).