6-letter words containing i, r, e
- lories — Plural form of lory.
- lorrie — a female given name, form of Laura.
- lourie — Any of several species of the family Musophagidae.
- maigre — containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.
- mailer — letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
- maimer — Agent noun of maim; one who maims.
- mainer — a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- marcie — a female given name, form of Marcia.
- margie — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- mariel — a city and seaport of Cuba, on the W coast, SW of Havana.
- marine — of or relating to the sea; existing in or produced by the sea: marine vegetation.
- marrie — (archaic) alternative spelling of marry.
- megrim — megrims, low spirits; the blues.
- mehari — A type of fast-running dromedary camel, which can be used for racing or transport.
- memoir — a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
- menhir — an upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others, as in an alignment, found chiefly in Cornwall and Brittany.
- mercia — an early English kingdom in central Britain.
- mergui — a seaport in S Burma, on the Andaman Sea.
- merida — a peninsula in SE Mexico and N Central America comprising parts of SE Mexico, N Guatemala, and Belize.
- merils — an old-fashioned game played by two people, involving the placing of counters at the intersections of lines drawn on a board or on the ground.
- merina — a member of a Malagasy-speaking people who primarily inhabit the interior plateau of Madagascar.
- mering — (as modifier)
- merino — (often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- merise — Methode d'Etude et de Realisation Informatique pour les Systemes d'Enteprise. A software engineering method popular in France; many IPSEs are based on it.
- merism — (literature, rhetoric) Referring to something by its polar extremes, as in
- merits — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- merkin — false hair for the female pudenda.
- merlin — OS/2
- mersin — a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- mervin — a male given name.
- merwin — W(illiam) S(tanley) born 1927, U.S. poet, translator, and writer.
- metier — a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- metric — software metric
- mezair — a movement in which the horse makes a series of short jumps forward while standing on its hind legs.
- micher — One who goes sneaking about for dishonest or improper purposes; one who skulks, or keeps out of sight; a pander or go-between.
- mierda — (neologism, vulgar) shit.
- mieres — a city in N Spain, south of Oviedo: steel and chemical industries; iron and coal mines. Pop: 47 618 (2003 est)
- milder — amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
- milers — Plural form of miler.
- milker — a person or thing that milks.
- miller — Arthur, 1915–2005, U.S. playwright and novelist.
- milner — Alfred, 1st Viscount, 1854–1925, British statesman and colonial administrator.
- milter — a male fish in breeding time.
- mincer — to cut or chop into very small pieces.
- minder — Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination): a baby-minder.
- miners — Plural form of miner.
- minger — an ugly, unpleasant, or smelly person or thing.
- minter — One who mints.
- mirage — an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- mirena — a type of intrauterine system