5-letter words containing r, e, s, i
- serif — a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
- serin — a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- shier — bashful; retiring.
- shire — a river in SE Africa, flowing S from Lake Malawi to the Zambezi River. 370 miles (596 km) long.
- sider — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sieur — sir
- siker — safe from danger; secure.
- siler — a utensil for straining milk
- siper — (of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sired — the male parent of a quadruped.
- siree — (used as an intensive with no or yes): Will I go there again? No, sirree!
- siren — Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- siret — a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- sixer — a cardinal number, five plus one.
- sizer — (at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.
- skier — a person who skis.
- slier — a comparative of sly.
- speir — to ask; inquire
- spier — a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spire — a coil or spiral.
- sweir — lazy
- swire — a neck, or depression, between two hills
- tries — plural of try.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.