6-letter words containing i, r, e
- obiter — Incidentally; in passing.
- oilers — Plural form of oiler.
- oilery — The business or goods of a dealer in oils.
- oilier — Comparative form of oily.
- oinker — (slang, countable) A pig: an animal of the genus Sus.
- oliver — one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne. Compare Roland.
- oozier — Comparative form of oozy.
- orbier — like or pertaining to an orb.
- orcein — a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- oreide — oroide.
- orexin — (biochemistry) Either of two neuropeptide hormones found in vertebrates; the hypocretins.
- orexis — the affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act.
- orgies — Plural form of orgy.
- oriels — Plural form of oriel.
- orient — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- origen — (Origenes Admantius) a.d. 185?–254? Alexandrian writer, Christian theologian, and teacher.
- oriole — any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World. Compare golden oriole.
- oroide — an alloy containing copper, tin, etc., used to imitate gold.
- orpine — a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- osiers — Plural form of osier.
- osiery — An osier bed.
- oupire — A vampire.
- owerri — a market town in S Nigeria, capital of Imo state. Pop (local government areas): 401 873 (2006)
- pairle — a device representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium, consisting of a broad Y -shaped form covered with crosses.
- panier — a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
- pardie — verily; indeed
- paries — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parkie — a park keeper
- patier — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- peerie — a spinning top
- peirce — Benjamin, 1809–80, U.S. mathematician.
- peoria — a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- perdie — certainly; indeed
- pereia — (in a crustacean) the thorax.
- perfin — a postage stamp having perforated initials punched into the paper: used by businesses to prevent unauthorized use of stamps.
- period — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
- perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perkin — Sir William Henry, 1838–1907, English chemist.
- perlis — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- permie — a person, esp an office worker, employed by a firm on a permanent basis
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- pernik — former name of Dimitrovo.
- pernio — chilblain.
- perrin — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1870–1942, French physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in physics 1926.
- persia — Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- persis — an ancient region of SW Iran: homeland of the Achaemenid dynasty
- petrie — Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- picker — someone or something that picks.
- piecer — a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work.