6-letter words containing i, r, t, s
- lyrist — a person who plays the lyre or who sings and accompanies himself or herself on the lyre.
- marist — a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- merits — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- mister — a spray, nozzle, or similar device for misting plants.
- miters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miter.
- nistru — Romanian name of Dniester.
- nitros — Chemistry. containing the nitro group.
- orbits — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- prosit — good health! cheers!
- purist — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- quirts — Plural form of quirt.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- relist — to list again
- resift — to sift again
- resist — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- resita — an industrial city in the Banat, W Romania.
- resite — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- resuit — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- rictus — the gape of the mouth of a bird.
- rights — a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral: You have a right to say what you please.
- ripest — having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- ripost — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- ristra — a string of dried chilies, garlic, or other foodstuffs.
- rivets — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- rosita — a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- rustic — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- rustin — Bayard [bey-erd] /ˈbeɪ ərd/ (Show IPA), 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.
- santir — a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- satire — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- satori — sudden enlightenment.
- script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- shirty — bad-tempered; irritable; cranky.
- shrift — the imposition of penance by a priest on a penitent after confession.
- sifter — a person or thing that sifts.
- sinter — siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- sintra — a town in central Portugal, near Lisbon, in the Sintra mountains: noted for its castles and palaces and the beauty of its setting: tourism
- sister — a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- sistra — an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of a looped metal frame set in a handle and fitted with loose crossbars that rattle when shaken.
- sitrep — a military situation report
- sitter — Willem de [wil-uh m duh] /ˈwɪl əm də/ (Show IPA), 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.
- smiter — to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
- smriti — writings containing traditions concerning law, rituals, teachings of the sages, the epics, and the Puranas.
- sortie — a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- sparti — Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- spirts — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- sprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.