6-letter words containing i, s, r
- crispr — Biochemistry. a unique cluster of short, repeated DNA sequences found in bacterial genomes and capable of fighting viruses: CRISPR enables bacteria to integrate foreign DNA into their genome.
- crisps — very thin slices of potato fried and eaten cold as a snack
- crispy — Food that is crispy is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- crista — a structure resembling a ridge or crest, such as that formed by folding of the inner membrane of a mitochondrion
- crucis — genitive of Crux.
- cruise — A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places.
- cruisy — (of music) suitable to listen to when driving leisurely.
- curies — Plural form of curie.
- curios — any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- curtis — a masculine name: dim. Curt
- cypris — a member of a genus of small bivalve freshwater crustaceans
- darius — (Codomannus) died 330 b.c, king of Persia 336–330.
- debris — Debris is pieces from something that has been destroyed or pieces of rubbish or unwanted material that are spread around.
- dermis — the layer of skin just below the epidermis
- derris — any East Indian leguminous woody climbing plant of the genus Derris, esp D. elliptica, whose roots yield the compound rotenone
- desier — Eye dialect of desire.
- desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
- dimers — Plural form of dimer.
- dinars — Plural form of dinar.
- diners — Plural form of diner.
- direst — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirges — Plural form of dirge.
- dirkes — Plural form of dirke.
- disarm — to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
- disbar — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- disert — (obsolete) eloquent.
- diseur — a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- disord — (obsolete) disorder.
- dispur — a state in NE India. 30,285 sq. mi. (78,438 sq. km). Capital: Dispur.
- distro — A distributor or distributed version, especially of Linux software or of webzines.
- divers — several; various; sundry: divers articles.
- dories — Plural form of dory.
- dorsi- — of, on, or along the back
- drains — Plural form of drain.
- driers — Plural form of drier.
- driest — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- drifts — Plural form of drift.
- drills — Plural form of drill.
- drinks — Plural form of drink.
- drives — Plural form of drive.
- droids — Plural form of droid.
- druids — Plural form of druid.
- dryish — Quite dry, relatively dry.
- durzis — Plural form of durzi.
- easier — not hard or difficult; requiring no great labor or effort: a book that is easy to read; an easy victory.
- eiders — Plural form of eider.
- elisor — (UK, legal) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
- epirus — a region of NW Greece, part of ancient Epirus ceded to Greece after independence in 1830
- erinus — any plant of the scrophulariaceous genus Erinus, native to S Africa and S Europe, esp E. alpinus, grown as a rock plant for its white, purple, or carmine flowers
- esprit — European Strategic Programme for Research in Information Technology