5-letter words containing r, i, t
- gript — a past participle and simple past tense of grip.
- grist — grain to be ground.
- grith — protection or asylum for a limited period of time, as under church or crown.
- grits — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- 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
- ibert — Jacques François Antoine [zhahk frahn-swa ahn-twan] /ʒɑk frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1890–1962, French composer.
- ifrit — A kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an.
- iftar — (sometimes initial capital letter) the meal that Muslims eat after sunset during Ramadan to break the day’s fast.
- inert — having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active): inert matter.
- instr — instructor
- inter — to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- intra — within the walls, as of a city.
- intro — an introduction.
- irate — angry; enraged: an irate customer.
- istar — (programming, tool) An experimental IPSE from Imperial Software Technology.
- kiter — a light frame covered with some thin material, to be flown in the wind at the end of a long string.
- krait — any of several large, usually banded, placid but highly venomous snakes constituting the genus Bungarus, of the cobra family, common in southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago.
- kríti — Crete
- kurti — Alt form kurta.
- liter — light2 (def 36).
- litre — a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- marti — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- merit — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- mirth — gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.
- miter — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- mitra — the Vedic god of justice.
- mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
- murti — (Hinduism) A sacred image of a deity.
- niort — a department in W France. 2338 sq. mi. (6055 sq. km). Capital: Niort.
- niter — potassium nitrate.
- nitr- — nitro-
- nitra — a city in W Slovakia, on the Nitra River: historic religious sites.
- nitre — potassium nitrate.
- nitro — Chemistry. containing the nitro group.
- nitry — nitrous; comprising nitre
- orbit — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- parti — the basic scheme or concept of an architectural design.
- patri — Angelo [an-juh-loh] /ˈæn dʒəˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1965, U.S. educator and writer, born in Italy.
- pitri — the legendary progenitor of any family.
- print — to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.
- quirt — a riding whip consisting of a short, stout stock and a lash of braided leather.
- raita — an Indian condiment consisting of yogurt, spices, and diced or grated vegetables or fruits: cucumber raita.
- ratio — the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second: the ratio of 5 to 2, written 5:2 or 5/2.
- recit — narrative
- recti — plural of rectus.
- refit — to fit, prepare, or equip again.
- reist — (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go; balk.
- reith — John (Charles Walsham), 1st Baron. 1889–1971, British public servant: first general manager (1922–27) and first director general (1927–38) of the BBC
- remit — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
- resit — a test or examination that is retaken.