4-letter words containing r, i
- crib — A crib is a bed for a small baby.
- crik — Obsolete spelling of creak.
- crim — criminal
- crin — Horsehair fabric.
- crip — a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- crit — a critic.
- dari — the local name for the dialect of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan
- dier — One who dies.
- dior — Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- dir. — director
- dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirk — a male given name, form of Derek.
- dirl — to vibrate; shake.
- dirt — Design In Real Time
- drib — a small or minute quantity; bit.
- drin — a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- drip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
- eire — Ireland : also, the former official name (1937-49) of the country of Ireland
- eirp — equivalent isotropically radiated power
- emir — A title of various Muslim (mainly Arab) rulers.
- eric — A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
- erie — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living south of Lake Erie
- erin — a feminine name
- eris — /e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinised to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe" cultures, including hackerdom. See Church of the SubGenius.
- fair — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- fiar — (Scotland, law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
- fire — combustion
- firk — (transitive) To carry away or about; carry; move.
- firm — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- firn — névé.
- firs — Plural form of fir.
- firy — Obsolete form of fiery.
- flir — the abbreviation for forward looking infrared radar
- fmri — functional magnetic resonance imaging: a technique that directly measures the blood flow in the brain, thereby providing information on brain activity
- frei — Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- fri. — Fri. is a written abbreviation for Friday.
- frib — a short heavy-conditioned piece of wool removed from a fleece during classing
- frig — to copulate with.
- frim — (dialectal, archaic, or, obsolete) Flourishing, thriving.
- frio — a river in S Texas, flowing S and SE to the Nueces River SE of San Antonio. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- fris — a fine frieze-like fabric
- frit — Ceramics. a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels. the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- friz — the state of being frizzed.
- gair — a strip or patch of fertile grass
- gari — thinly sliced pickled ginger, often served with sushi
- gird — to gibe or jeer at; taunt.
- gire — Obsolete form of gyre.
- girl — a female child, from birth to full growth.
- girn — grin2 .
- giro — autogiro.