5-letter words containing i, s, r
- miras — Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mire.
- miser — a comedy (1668) by Molière.
- naris — A nostril.
- noirs — Plural form of noir.
- ofris — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- ornis — an avifauna.
- orris — a lace or braid made of gold or silver, much used in the 18th century.
- osier — any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- pairs — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- paris — Anatole [a-na-tawl] /a naˈtɔl/ (Show IPA), (Jacques Anatole Thibault) 1844–1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel Prize 1921.
- peris — one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- piers — a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- pries — to try, test, or taste.
- prigs — Chiefly British. a thief.
- prims — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- prise — pry2 .
- prism — Optics. a transparent solid body, often having triangular bases, used for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting rays of light.
- priss — a prissy person.
- prius — (in prescriptions) before; former.
- qirsh — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Saudi Arabia, the 20th part of a riyal.
- rabis — Alternative spelling of rabiz.
- rains — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- rashi — (Solomon ben Isaac) 1040–1105, French Hebrew scholar.
- reais — real3 (sense 2)
- regis — a male given name.
- reims — a city in NE France: scene of the coronation of most French monarchs. Pop: 188 078 (2006)
- reins — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reist — (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go; balk.
- resid — the residual oil left over from the petroleum distillation process
- resin — a male given name.
- resit — a test or examination that is retaken.
- ribes — any shrub of the genus Ribes, including blackcurrants and redcurrants
- riles — to irritate or vex.
- rills — any of certain long, narrow, straight or sinuous trenches or valleys observed on the surface of the moon.
- rimes — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- rinse — to wash lightly, as by pouring water into or over or by dipping in water: to rinse a cup.
- risen — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- riser — a person who rises, especially from bed: to be an early riser.
- rishi — an inspired sage or poet.
- risky — attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking.
- risql — Red Brick Intelligent SQL
- roils — to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- roshi — the religious leader of a group of Zen Buddhists.
- rosie — a female given name, form of Rose.
- rosin — Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- rösti — a Swiss dish consisting of grated potato formed into a cake, sometimes with onion, fried, and topped with cheese
- ruins — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- sabir — lingua franca (def 2).