5-letter words containing i, s, r
- spier — a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spir- — spiro-2
- spire — a coil or spiral.
- spirt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spiry — spiral; coiled; coiling; helical.
- sprig — a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- sprit — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- spyri — Johanna [German yaw-hah-nah;; English joh-han-uh-,, -an-uh] /German yɔˈhɑ nɑ;; English dʒoʊˈhæn ə-,, -ˈæn ə/ (Show IPA), 1827–1901, Swiss author.
- srapi — Speech Recognition Application Program Interface
- sruti — the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- stair — one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- stirk — a young bull or cow, especially one in its second year.
- stirp — a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- stria — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- strig — to remove the stalk from
- strim — to cut (grass) using a Strimmer
- strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- sweir — lazy
- swire — a neck, or depression, between two hills
- swirl — to move around or along with a whirling motion; whirl; eddy.
- syria — Official name Syrian Arab Republic. a republic in SW Asia at the E end of the Mediterranean. 71,227 sq. mi. (184,478 sq. km). Capital: Damascus.
- tarsi — Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of the proximal segment of the foot; the bones between the tibia and the metatarsus, contributing to the construction of the ankle joint.
- tiros — one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- torsi — a plural of torso.
- trias — the Triassic period or rock system
- tries — plural of try.
- trois — the number 3.
- ursid — any plantigrade carnivore of the family Ursidae, comprising the spectacled bear, the black, brown, and sun bears, and various extinct species that also gave rise to the giant panda of the family Ailuropodidae.
- viers — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- vires — strength; force; power.
- virls — ferrule (def 1).
- virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
- visor — Armor. (on a close helmet) a piece having slits or holes for vision, situated above and pivoted with a beaver or a ventail and beaver. a similar piece of plate having holes or slits for vision and breathing, attached to or used with any of various other helmets, as the armet, sallet, basinet, or helm.
- vries — Hugo [hyoo-goh;; Dutch hy-goh] /ˈhyu goʊ;; Dutch ˈhü goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1935, Dutch botanist and student of organic heredity: developed the concept of mutation as a factor in the process of evolution.
- weirs — Plural form of weir.
- whirs — to go, fly, revolve, or otherwise move quickly with a humming or buzzing sound: An electric fan whirred softly in the corner.
- wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- wiser — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- wries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wry.
- wrist — the carpus or lower part of the forearm where it joins the hand.
- writs — Plural form of writ.
- yirds — earth.
- zoris — Plural form of zori.