6-letter words containing c, r, i, s
- frisco — San Francisco.
- hirsch — John Stephen, 1930–1989, Canadian stage director, born in Hungary.
- 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.
- incurs — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- kirsch — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- locris — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- lyrics — The words to a song (or other vocal music).
- micros — Plural form of micro.
- orchis — any orchid.
- orcish — (fantasy) Of or relating to orcs (monstrous humanoid creatures).
- precis — a concise summary.
- psoric — a cure for psora
- rachis — Botany. the axis of an inflorescence when somewhat elongated, as in a raceme. (in a pinnately compound leaf or frond) the prolongation of the petiole along which the leaflets are disposed. any of various axial structures.
- racism — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- rbasic — Database language for Revelation, by Cosmos, Inc. Combines features of BASIC, Pascal and Fortran.
- relics — a surviving memorial of something past.
- repics — the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- riches — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- rictus — the gape of the mouth of a bird.
- riscix — (operating system) /risk-icks/ (Or "RISC iX") BSD-based Unix developed by Acorn Computers Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) to run on 32-bit ARM RISC processors. RISCiX was launched circa 1989 for three production machines - the R140, R260, the discless R225; and other prototypes.
- riscpc — (computer) The final addition to Acorn's Archimedes family of personal computers, released in April 1994. The RiscPC allowed a second processor, e.g. an Intel 486 or a second ARM, to share the bus, memory and peripherals with the main processor. It also had full 24-bit colour graphics support. The Risc PC 600 (the first to be launched) had the new ARM600 processor and RISC OS 3.5. The RiscPC 700 had an ARM710 processor and RISC OS 3.6, and the SA had the StrongARM processor and RISC OS 3.7. RiscPCs are among the most energy efficient home computers.
- roscid — dewy
- rustic — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- scoria — Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- scribe — Augustin Eugène [oh-gys-tan œ-zhen] /oʊ güsˈtɛ̃ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1791–1861, French dramatist.
- scrike — to shriek
- scrimp — to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed by on): They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
- scrine — a shrine or a bookcase
- 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.
- tricks — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- 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.