6-letter words containing i, s, r
- lyrics — The words to a song (or other vocal music).
- lyrids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Lyrid meteor shower) visible April 22 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Lyra.
- lyrism — lyricism.
- lyrist — a person who plays the lyre or who sings and accompanies himself or herself on the lyre.
- marais — a swamp or bayou.
- marias — a female given name, form of Mary.
- marish — a marsh.
- marist — a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- mbiras — Plural form of mbira.
- merils — an old-fashioned game played by two people, involving the placing of counters at the intersections of lines drawn on a board or on the ground.
- merise — Methode d'Etude et de Realisation Informatique pour les Systemes d'Enteprise. A software engineering method popular in France; many IPSEs are based on it.
- merism — (literature, rhetoric) Referring to something by its polar extremes, as in
- merits — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- mersin — a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- micros — Plural form of micro.
- mieres — a city in N Spain, south of Oviedo: steel and chemical industries; iron and coal mines. Pop: 47 618 (2003 est)
- milers — Plural form of miler.
- miners — Plural form of miner.
- minors — Plural form of minor.
- mirvis — Ephraim (ˈiːfreɪɪm). born 1956, British rabbi, born in South Africa; Commonwealth chief rabbi from 2013
- misère — call in solo whist and other card games declaring a hand that will win no tricks
- misers — Plural form of miser.
- misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- misrun — an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- misser — One who misses.
- mister — a spray, nozzle, or similar device for misting plants.
- misyar — A temporary marriage in Sunni Islam.
- miters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miter.
- miurus — a type of metre in poetry consisting of a hexameter with a short second last syllable
- mixers — Plural form of mixer.
- moiser — a person who informs or betrays
- morish — Alternative spelling of moreish.
- morris — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- nadirs — Plural form of nadir.
- nebris — a fawn skin worn in Greek mythology by Dionysus and his followers.
- nereis — clamworm.
- nistru — Romanian name of Dniester.
- nitros — Chemistry. containing the nitro group.
- no sir — expressing polite negation
- norias — Plural form of noria.
- norris — Charles Gilman, 1881–1945, U.S. novelist and editor.
- nursie — (childish, mainly as a term of address) nurse.
- ogrish — a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- ogrism — a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
- oilers — Plural form of oiler.
- orbits — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- orchis — any orchid.
- orcish — (fantasy) Of or relating to orcs (monstrous humanoid creatures).
- orexis — the affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act.