6-letter words containing i, r, e
- lanier — Sidney, 1842–81, U.S. poet and literary scholar.
- larine — characteristic of or resembling a gull.
- laurie — a female given name, form of Laura.
- lazier — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- leiria — a city in central Portugal: site of the first printing press in Portugal (1466). Pop: 119 870 (2001)
- leloir — Luis Federico [lwees fe-th e-ree-kaw] /lwis ˌfɛ ðɛˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–1987, Argentine biochemist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970.
- lenoir — Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- lerida — a city in NE Spain.
- levier — a person who levies.
- libber — an advocate, follower, or member of a social-reform liberation movement: a women's libber; a gay libber.
- libera — an ancient Italian goddess of wine, vineyards, and fertility and the wife of Liber, in later times identified with Persephone.
- libero — The rearmost, roaming defensive player in volleyball or soccer.
- libers — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
- librae — Plural form of libra.
- licker — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- lieder — a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership: Schubert lieder.
- liefer — gladly; willingly: I would as lief go south as not.
- lienor — (legal) A lienholder.
- lierne — an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- lievre — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing SW to the Ottawa River. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- lifers — Plural form of lifer.
- lifter — a person or thing that lifts.
- ligers — Plural form of liger.
- ligger — The horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a ledger.
- ligure — a precious stone, probably the jacinth. Ex. 28:19.
- likers — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- likker — liquor.
- limber — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- limmer — a woman of loose morals; hussy.
- limner — a person who paints or draws.
- limper — lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame: a limp body.
- linear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- liners — Plural form of liner.
- linger — to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
- linier — full of or marked with lines.
- linker — one of the rings or separate pieces of which a chain is composed.
- linter — linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- lipper — a slightly rough or ripply surface on a body of water.
- lisper — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lister — a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
- liters — Plural form of liter.
- lither — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- litres — Plural form of litre.
- litter — objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
- littre — Maximilien Paul Émile [mak-see-mee-lyan pawl ey-meel] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ pɔl eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1801–88, French lexicographer and philosopher.
- livers — Plural form of liver.
- livery — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- livier — a native or resident of Newfoundland or Labrador.
- loiret — a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- loiter — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.