6-letter words containing i, r, l
- 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.
- liquor — a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer.
- lisgar — Sir John Young, 1807–76, Canadian political leader: governor general 1869–72.
- 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.
- lizard — a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.
- locris — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- 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.
- lorain — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- lorica — Zoology. a hard protective case or sheath, as the protective coverings secreted by certain protists.
- lories — Plural form of lory.
- loring — a male given name.
- lorrie — a female given name, form of Laura.
- lourie — Any of several species of the family Musophagidae.
- lubric — lubricous.
- luring — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lyrics — The words to a song (or other vocal music).
- lyrids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Lyrid meteor shower) visible April 22 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Lyra.
- lyrism — lyricism.
- lyrist — a person who plays the lyre or who sings and accompanies himself or herself on the lyre.
- mailer — letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
- mariel — a city and seaport of Cuba, on the W coast, SW of Havana.
- marlin — any large, saltwater game fish of the genera Makaira and Tetrapterus, having the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike structure.
- 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.