5-letter words containing i, r
- drite — (intransitive, obsolete) To defecate.
- drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- droid — android.
- droil — to carry out menial, toilsome work
- droit — a legal right or claim.
- druid — a member of a pre-Christian religious order among the ancient Celts of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland.
- durzi — (India) a tailor, in India and the subcontinent.
- eerie — uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
- eider — A northern sea duck, of which the male has mainly black and white plumage with a colored head, and the brown female has soft down feathers that are used to line the nest.
- eiger — a mountain in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. Height: 3970 m (13 025 ft)
- eirie — Alternative form of eyrie.
- emdir — The CERN Electronic Mail DIRectory utility.
- emirs — Plural form of emir.
- épris — enamoured
- erbia — (inorganic compound) erbium oxide Er2O3; Discovered in 1843, by Carl Gustaf Mosander.
- erbil — a city in N Iraq: important in Assyrian times. Pop: 870 000 (2005 est)
- ercim — European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics. An association of European research organisations promoting cooperative research on key issues in Information Technology.
- erfpi — An early system on the LGP-30 computer.
- erica — A plant of the genus Erica (family Ericaceae), esp. (in gardening) heather.
- erisa — law: Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- ermin — Obsolete form of ermine.
- ernie — (in Britain) a machine that randomly selects winning numbers of Premium Bonds
- ervil — a type of vetch, Vicia ervilia
- erwin — a masculine name: var. Irwin
- eyrie — A bird of prey's nest.
- eyrir — A monetary unit of Iceland, equal to one hundredth of a krona.
- ezrin — (genetics) A human gene that encodes a cytoplasmic peripheral membrane protein serving as an intermediate between the plasma membrane and the actin cytoskeleton.
- faire — Obsolete spelling of fair.
- fairs — Plural form of fair.
- fairy — (in folklore) one of a class of supernatural beings, generally conceived as having a diminutive human form and possessing magical powers with which they intervene in human affairs.
- fakir — a Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or mendicant monk commonly considered a wonder-worker.
- faqir — fakir.
- farci — filled with with seasoned bread crumbs or other savory matter; stuffed.
- farhi — Nicole. born 1946, French fashion designer based in Britain: married to Sir David Hare
- farik — young wheat that has been fire-roasted, then threshed and dried: usually cooked by boiling.
- farsi — the modern Iranian language of Iran and western Afghanistan, written in the Arabic alphabet; modern Persian.
- feria — Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- fermi — Enrico [en-ree-koh;; Italian en-ree-kaw] /ɛnˈri koʊ;; Italian ɛnˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, Italian physicist, in the U.S. after 1939: Nobel Prize 1938.
- fiars — (in Scotland) the legally fixed prices for corn
- fiber — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- fibr- — fibro-
- fibre — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- fibro — (uncountable) a building material consisting of fibres and cement pressed in to sheets.
- fiery — consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire: a volcano's fiery discharge.
- fifer — a high-pitched transverse flute used commonly in military and marching musical groups.
- filar — of or relating to a thread or threads.
- filer — a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
- finer — of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
- fiord — a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.
- fired — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.