5-letter words containing i, r
- girly — featuring nude or scantily clad young women: a girlie show; girlie magazines.
- girlz — Informal spelling of girls.
- giron — a charge consisting of the lower half of a diagonally divided quarter, usually in the top left corner of the shield
- giros — Alternative form of gyro.
- girsh — qirsh.
- girth — the measure around anything; circumference.
- girts — Plural form of girt.
- giver — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- glair — the white of an egg.
- gorki — Also, Gorky. Maxim [mak-sim;; Russian muh-ksyeem] /ˈmæk sɪm;; Russian mʌˈksyim/ (Show IPA), (Aleksey Maksimovich Pyeshkov) 1868–1936, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist.
- grail — (usually initial capital letter). Also called Holy Grail. a cup or chalice that in medieval legend was associated with unusual powers, especially the regeneration of life and, later, Christian purity, and was much sought after by medieval knights: identified with the cup used at the Last Supper and given to Joseph of Arimathea.
- grain — granularity
- graip — a long-handled fork for digging dung
- grani — (in the Volsunga Saga) the horse of Sigurd.
- grein — to desire fervently
- grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- grick — /grik/ (WPI, first used by Tim Haven to describe "grick trigonometry", a shortcut method of determing attack angles in grid-based games like Star Trek) Any integral increment of measurement. E.g. "Please turn the stereo up a few gricks".
- gride — to make a grating sound; scrape harshly; grate; grind.
- grids — Plural form of grid.
- grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- grieg — Edvard [ed-vahrd;; Norwegian ed-vahrt] /ˈɛd vɑrd;; Norwegian ˈɛd vɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1843–1907, Norwegian composer.
- griff — griffin2 .
- grift — (sometimes used with a plural verb) a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
- grigs — Plural form of grig.
- grike — (chiefly, British) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.
- grilf — Girl-friend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo incarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992.
- grill — a grating or openwork barrier, as for a gate, usually of metal and often of decorative design.
- grime — dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- grimm — Jakob Ludwig Karl [yah-kop loot-vikh kahrl,, lood-] /ˈyɑ kɒp ˈlut vɪx kɑrl,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1785–1863, and his brother Wilhelm Karl [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA) 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.
- grimy — covered with grime; dirty: I shook his grimy hand.
- grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grins — Plural form of grin.
- griot — a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- gripe — Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
- grips — Plural form of grip.
- gript — a past participle and simple past tense of grip.
- gripy — resembling or causing gripes.
- grise — (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
- grist — grain to be ground.
- grisy — grim or grisly
- grith — protection or asylum for a limited period of time, as under church or crown.
- grits — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- groid — (derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- groin — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- gruid — (zoology) Any member of the Gruidae.
- guiro — a South American musical instrument consisting of a hollow gourd with serrated surface that is scraped with a stick.
- gumri — a city in NW Armenia, NW of Yerevan.
- gwari — a member of an agricultural people of northeastern Nigeria.
- haire — Obsolete spelling of hair.
- hairs — Plural form of hair.