5-letter words containing r, i, s
- fires — Plural form of fire.
- firms — Plural form of firm.
- firns — Plural form of firn.
- first — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- frics — Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- frigs — Plural form of frig.
- frise — a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- frisk — to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic: The dogs and children frisked about on the lawn.
- frist — (obsolete) A certain space or period of time; respite.
- frits — Plural form of frit.
- girds — Plural form of gird.
- girls — Plural form of girl.
- giros — Alternative form of gyro.
- girsh — qirsh.
- girts — Plural form of girt.
- grids — Plural form of grid.
- grigs — Plural form of grig.
- grins — Plural form of grin.
- grips — Plural form of grip.
- grise — (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
- grist — grain to be ground.
- grisy — grim or grisly
- grits — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- hairs — Plural form of hair.
- heirs — Plural form of heir.
- hires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hire.
- hirst — Damien. born 1965, British artist, noted esp for his works featuring dead animals preserved in tanks of formaldehyde, and for his 2007 sculpture, For the Love of God, a human skull encrusted with flawless diamonds
- instr — instructor
- ipars — International Programmable Airline Reservation System
- irbus — IrDA Control
- irids — any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- irish — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- irons — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- isere — a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- iskur — a river in W Bulgaria, flowing N and NE to the Danube River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- istar — (programming, tool) An experimental IPSE from Imperial Software Technology.
- izars — a long, usually white cotton dress that covers the body completely, worn by women of North Africa and the Middle East.
- jirds — Plural form of jird.
- keirs — a large vat in which fibers, yarns, or fabrics are boiled, bleached, or dyed.
- keris — Alternative spelling of kris.
- kiers — Plural form of kier.
- kirks — Plural form of kirk.
- krips — Josef [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1902–74, Austrian orchestra conductor.
- lairs — Plural form of lair.
- laris — Plural form of lari.
- liars — Plural form of liar.
- liers — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- loris — Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- maris — Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.