6-letter words containing e, d, i, r
- reduit — a military construction which troops use to defend themselves while holding out an attack
- reedit — to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
- refind — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- regild — to gild again
- reined — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- relied — to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon): You can rely on her work.
- remind — to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something): Remind me to phone him tomorrow. That woman reminds me of my mother.
- repaid — to pay back or refund, as money.
- reside — to apply new siding, as to a house.
- rewild — to introduce (animals or plants) to their original habitat or to a habitat similar to their natural one: proposals to rewild elephants to the American plains.
- rewind — an act or instance of rewinding.
- ribbed — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- ridded — to clear, disencumber, or free of something objectionable (usually followed by of): I want to rid the house of mice. In my opinion, you'd be wise to rid yourself of the smoking habit.
- ridden — a past participle of ride.
- riddle — a coarse sieve, as one for sifting sand in a foundry.
- rident — laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- ridged — a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- ridger — a plough used to form furrows and ridges
- ridley — Also called Atlantic ridley, bastard ridley, bastard turtle. a gray sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii, of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, about 24 inches (61 cm) long, previously thought to be a hybrid of the loggerhead and green turtles: an endangered species.
- riffed — rif.
- rifled — a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
- rifted — an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- rigged — Chiefly Nautical. to put in proper order for working or use. to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc. to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.
- rimmed — having a rim: Do you wear rimmed or rimless glasses?
- ringed — having or wearing a ring or rings.
- rioted — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- ripped — drunk; intoxicated.
- roadie — a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians or other entertainers, whose work usually includes the setting up of equipment.
- roiled — to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- rubied — having a color like that of a ruby; deep red.
- ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- sider- — sidero-1
- slider — a person or thing that slides.
- snider — derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner: snide remarks about his boss.
- spider — any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- spired — having a spire.
- stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- tidier — neat, orderly, or trim, as in appearance or dress: a tidy room; a tidy person.
- tiered — being or arranged in tiers or layers (usually used in combination): a two-tiered box of chocolates.
- tinder — a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
- tirade — a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation: a tirade against smoking.
- trepid — fearful or apprehensive, especially trembling from fear.
- triode — a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- uredia — uredinium.
- ureide — an acyl urea.
- varied — characterized by or exhibiting variety; various; diverse; diversified: varied backgrounds.
- verbid — a nonfinite verb form; a verbal; an infinitive, participle, or gerund.
- verdin — a small, yellow-headed, titmouse-like bird, Auriparus flaviceps, of arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, which builds a compact, spherical nest of thorny twigs.
- voider — an empty space; emptiness: He disappeared into the void.
- waired — Simple past tense and past participle of wair.