5-letter words containing g, r, i
- grilf — Girl-friend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo incarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992.
- grill — a grating or openwork barrier, as for a gate, usually of metal and often of decorative design.
- grime — dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- grimm — Jakob Ludwig Karl [yah-kop loot-vikh kahrl,, lood-] /ˈyɑ kɒp ˈlut vɪx kɑrl,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1785–1863, and his brother Wilhelm Karl [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA) 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.
- grimy — covered with grime; dirty: I shook his grimy hand.
- grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grins — Plural form of grin.
- griot — a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- gripe — Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
- grips — Plural form of grip.
- gript — a past participle and simple past tense of grip.
- gripy — resembling or causing gripes.
- grise — (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
- grist — grain to be ground.
- grisy — grim or grisly
- grith — protection or asylum for a limited period of time, as under church or crown.
- grits — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- groid — (derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- groin — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- gruid — (zoology) Any member of the Gruidae.
- guiro — a South American musical instrument consisting of a hollow gourd with serrated surface that is scraped with a stick.
- gumri — a city in NW Armenia, NW of Yerevan.
- gwari — a member of an agricultural people of northeastern Nigeria.
- iburg — A program by Christopher W. Fraser <[email protected]>, David R. Hanson <[email protected]> and Todd A. Proebsting <[email protected]> that generates a fast tree parser. Iburg is compatible with Burg. Both programs accept a cost-augmented tree grammar and emit a C program that discovers an optimal parse of trees in the language described by the grammar. They have been used to construct fast optimal instruction selectors for use in code generation. Burg uses BURS. Iburg's matchers do dynamic programming at compile time.
- irgun — a militant Zionist underground group, active chiefly during the period (1917–48) of British control by mandate of Palestine.
- iring — Present participle of ire.
- jagir — Alternative spelling of jaghir.
- jirga — A gathering of elders or leaders in Pakistan or Afghanistan, especially within a tribe.
- krieg — war1 .
- liger — the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- lurgi — Alternative spelling of lurgy.
- niger — a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- nigra — (offensive, ethnic slur) A negro person.
- orig. — origin
- pagri — a turban or head-scarf
- pirog — a large pie filled with meat, vegetables, etc
- prigs — Chiefly British. a thief.
- rangi — the sky
- regie — a government monopoly used mainly to raise revenue from taxes
- regin — a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- regis — a male given name.
- reign — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- rejig — If someone rejigs an organization or a piece of work, they arrange or organize it in a different way, in order to improve it.
- relig — religion
- rerig — to rig again
- ridge — a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- ridgy — rising in a ridge or ridges.
- rigal — A language for compiler writing. Data strucures are atoms, lists/trees. Control is based on pattern matching.
- rigel — a first-magnitude star in the constellation Orion.
- right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.