5-letter words containing i, r, l
- lairy — of, relating to, or characteristic of a lair.
- larid — (zoology) Any member of the Laridae.
- laris — Plural form of lari.
- liard — a former silver coin of France, the fourth part of a sol, issued from the 15th century to 1793 and made from copper after 1650.
- liars — Plural form of liar.
- liber — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
- libor — London Inter-Bank Offer Rate: the standard rate of interest for loans between financial institutions
- libra — the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- libre — (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
- libri — phloem.
- lidar — a device similar to radar in principle and operation but using infrared laser light instead of radio waves and capable of detecting particles, distant objects, and varying physical conditions in the atmosphere.
- liers — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lifar — Serge [syir-gyey;; French serzh] /syɪrˈgyeɪ;; French sɛrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1905–86, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, in Paris after 1923.
- lifer — a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- liger — the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- liker — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- limer — (obsolete) A kind of dog kept on a lead; a bloodhound; a mongrel.
- liner — something serving as a lining.
- liter — light2 (def 36).
- litre — a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- liver — a person who lives in a manner specified: an extravagant liver.
- livor — (pathology) Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
- livre — a former money of account and group of coins of France, issued in coin form first in gold, then in silver, finally in copper, and discontinued in 1794.
- loire — a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- loria — Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications
- lorin — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- loris — Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- lurgi — Alternative spelling of lurgy.
- luria — Salvador Edward, 1912–91, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.
- lurid — gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
- lurie — Alison. born 1926, US novelist. Her novels include Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates (1974), Foreign Affairs (1985), and The Last Resort (1998)
- lyric — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- maril — Machine description language used by the Marion code generator.
- meril — a counter used in the game of merils
- miler — a participant in a one-mile race.
- nirly — shrivelled
- oiler — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- oriel — a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- peril — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- pilar — of, relating to, or covered with hair.
- piler — someone who makes a pile or places things on a pile
- plier — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- prial — (in cards) a pair-royal
- prill — to convert (a material) into a granular free-flowing form
- relic — a surviving memorial of something past.
- relig — religion
- reoil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- rifle — a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
- 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.