5-letter words containing r, i, b
- brisk — A brisk activity or action is done quickly and in an energetic way.
- brith — the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth.
- britt — a turbot of northeastern Atlantic seas.
- broil — When you broil food, you cook it using very strong heat directly above or below it.
- bruin — a name for a bear, used in children's tales, fables, etc
- bruit — to report; rumour
- burin — a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp lozenge-shaped point, used for engraving furrows in metal, wood, or marble
- carib — a member of a group of American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles
- cribs — A young child's bed with barred or latticed sides.
- debir — a royal city in the vicinity of Hebron, conquered by Othniel.
- dribs — Plural form of drib.
- erbia — (inorganic compound) erbium oxide Er2O3; Discovered in 1843, by Carl Gustaf Mosander.
- erbil — a city in N Iraq: important in Assyrian times. Pop: 870 000 (2005 est)
- fiber — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- fibr- — fibro-
- fibre — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- fibro — (uncountable) a building material consisting of fibres and cement pressed in to sheets.
- gbari — Gwari.
- giber — to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
- i-bar — a rolled or extruded metal beam having a cross section resembling an I. Compare H-beam.
- ibert — Jacques François Antoine [zhahk frahn-swa ahn-twan] /ʒɑk frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1890–1962, French composer.
- iburg — A program by Christopher W. Fraser <[email protected]>, David R. Hanson <[email protected]> and Todd A. Proebsting <[email protected]> that generates a fast tree parser. Iburg is compatible with Burg. Both programs accept a cost-augmented tree grammar and emit a C program that discovers an optimal parse of trees in the language described by the grammar. They have been used to construct fast optimal instruction selectors for use in code generation. Burg uses BURS. Iburg's matchers do dynamic programming at compile time.
- inorb — to enclose in or as if in an orb
- irbid — a town in NW Jordan.
- irbil — a town in N Iraq: built on the site of ancient Arbela.
- irbus — IrDA Control
- jabir — Geber.
- kabir — fl. late 15th century, Hindu religious reformer.
- kirby — a fishhook having an even bend.
- krubi — a plant of the arum family, Amorphophallus titanium, that has an unpleasant smell and produces the largest known unbranched flower
- liber — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
- libor — London Inter-Bank Offer Rate: the standard rate of interest for loans between financial institutions
- libra — the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- libre — (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
- libri — phloem.
- mbari — (Nigeria, West Africa) A ceremonial clay shrine filled with clay models of humans or deities, made by the Igbo tribe.
- mbira — a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating box, to which vibrating metal or wooden strips are attached for plucking.
- orbit — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- oribi — a small tan-colored antelope, Ourebia ourebi , of south and east Africa, with spikelike horns.
- rabbi — the chief religious official of a synagogue, trained usually in a theological seminary and duly ordained, who delivers the sermon at a religious service and performs ritualistic, pastoral, educational, and other functions in and related to his or her capacity as a spiritual leader of Judaism and the Jewish community. Compare cantor (def 2).
- rabia — the fourth month of the Muslim calendar.
- rabic — an infectious disease of dogs, cats, and other animals, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal and usually fatal if prophylactic treatment is not administered: caused by an RNA virus of the rhabdovirus group; hydrophobia.
- rabid — irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan.
- rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
- rabis — Alternative spelling of rabiz.
- rabiz — (music) A popular modern Armenian music style. Shows Middle Eastern influences and is related to Russian blatnyak and Azeri mugham. Considered tasteless and vulgar by educated people.
- rebid — Bridge. to make a second bid in (a suit that one bid previously): He opened a spade and then rebid spades on the three level.
- ribat — a building housing a community of Sufis.
- ribby — having prominent ribs: a ribby fabric.
- ribes — any shrub of the genus Ribes, including blackcurrants and redcurrants