5-letter words containing e, r, i
- meier — Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- merci — (French, colloquial) thank you.
- meril — a counter used in the game of merils
- merin — Mirim.
- merit — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- miler — a participant in a one-mile race.
- mimer — Someone who mimes during a performance of a song.
- miner — Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- mired — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- mires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mire.
- mirex — A synthetic insecticide of the organochlorine type used chiefly against ants.
- miser — a comedy (1668) by Molière.
- miter — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
- mixer — a person or thing that mixes.
- moire — (of silks and other fabrics) presenting a watery or wavelike appearance.
- nervi — Pier Luigi [pyer loo-ee-jee] /pyɛr luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1891–1979, Italian engineer and architect.
- nicer — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- niger — a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- niner — a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- nirex — Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive
- niter — potassium nitrate.
- nitre — potassium nitrate.
- nixer — (Irish, slang) A job or income which is taken in addition to one's normal employment, generally at evenings or weekends. Originally implied that payment was not declared for taxation, but now refers to any work that is not part of one's regular job.
- oiler — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- oorie — gloomy, dismal, or chilled with cold
- oriel — a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- osier — any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- ourie — shabby; dingy.
- peri- — enclosing, encircling, or around
- peril — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- peris — one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- piers — a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- piker — a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way.
- piler — someone who makes a pile or places things on a pile
- piper — a person who plays on a pipe.
- plier — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- price — Bruce, 1845–1903, U.S. architect.
- pride — Thomas, died 1658, English soldier and regicide.
- pried — to try, test, or taste.
- prier — a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- pries — to try, test, or taste.
- prime — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- prise — pry2 .
- prize — leverage.
- quire — a set of 24 uniform sheets of paper.
- raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- ramie — an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- reais — real3 (sense 2)
- rebid — Bridge. to make a second bid in (a suit that one bid previously): He opened a spade and then rebid spades on the three level.