5-letter words containing f, i, r
- fraid — Eye dialect of afraid.
- frail — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
- frain — (rare, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) to ask, inquire; demand.
- freit — (Scotland) A superstitious object or obvservance; a charm, an omen.
- friar — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
- frick — Henry Clay, 1849–1919, U.S. industrialist, art patron, and philanthropist.
- frics — Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- fried — cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.
- frier — a person or thing that fries.
- fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- frigg — wife of Odin and chief of the goddesses.
- frigs — Plural form of frig.
- frill — a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle.
- friml — Rudolf, 1881–1972, U.S. composer and pianist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- frink — /frink/ The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup news:alt.fan.lemurs, where it is said that the lemurs know what "frink" means, but they aren't telling. Compare gorets.
- frise — a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- frisk — to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic: The dogs and children frisked about on the lawn.
- frist — (obsolete) A certain space or period of time; respite.
- frith — firth.
- frits — Plural form of frit.
- fritt — Ceramics. a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels. the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- fritz — on the fritz, not in working order: Our TV went on the fritz last night.
- frize — (architecture) archaic form of frieze.
- frizz — the state of being frizzed.
- fruit — any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
- grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- griff — griffin2 .
- grift — (sometimes used with a plural verb) a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
- grilf — Girl-friend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo incarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992.
- ifrit — A kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an.
- iftar — (sometimes initial capital letter) the meal that Muslims eat after sunset during Ramadan to break the day’s fast.
- infer — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- infra — below, especially when used in referring to parts of a text.
- iperf — (networking, tool) A tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and datagram loss. An IPv6 version is also available.
- kafir — Also called Nuristani. a member of an Indo-European people of Nuristan.
- kefir — A sour-tasting drink make from cow’s milk fermented with certain bacteria.
- lifar — Serge [syir-gyey;; French serzh] /syɪrˈgyeɪ;; French sɛrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1905–86, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, in Paris after 1923.
- lifer — a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- ofris — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- rafia — a derogatory term for the Irish Republican Army, when considered as a source of organized crime
- refit — to fit, prepare, or equip again.
- refix — to repair; mend.
- reify — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- rifer — of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use: Crime is rife in the slum areas of our cities.
- rifle — 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.
- rifty — having rifts
- serif — a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
- triff — very good indeed; terrific