4-letter words containing r, i
- girt — a simple past tense and past participle of gird1 .
- gori — A city in eastern Georgia, the regional capital of the Shida Kartli region.
- grib — GRid In Binary. The World Meteorological Organization's data format.
- grid — a grating of crossed bars; gridiron.
- grig — a cricket or grasshopper.
- gril — (obsolete) harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough.
- grim — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- grin — to smile broadly, especially as an indication of pleasure, amusement, or the like.
- grip — the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
- gris — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), (José Vittoriano Gonzáles) 1887–1927, Spanish painter in France.
- grit — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- grix — /griks/ (WPI) A meta-number, said to be an integer between 6 and 7. Used either alone or with flib or suffixes such as -ty, -teen, etc. to denote an arbitrary integer (see N). "This system will bomb if there are grixty-flib users on it."
- gyri — plural of gyrus.
- hair — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- heir — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- hird — (historical) In Norwegian history, an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls.
- hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hirn — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Corner; nook; hiding-place.
- hori — a Māori
- iaru — International Amateur Radio Union
- ibrd — International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank)
- icer — One who ices.
- icrc — International Committee of the Red Cross
- iirc — (chat) If I recall/remember correctly.
- incr — increase
- inri — Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (the inscription placed over Christ's head during the Crucifixion)
- inro — a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- intr — Abbreviation of intransitive.
- irak — a republic in SW Asia, N of Saudi Arabia and W of Iran, centering in the Tigris-Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia. 172,000 sq. mi. (445,480 sq. km). Capital: Baghdad.
- iran — a republic in SW Asia. About 635,000 sq. mi. (1,644,650 sq. km). Capital: Teheran.
- iraq — a republic in SW Asia, N of Saudi Arabia and W of Iran, centering in the Tigris-Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia. 172,000 sq. mi. (445,480 sq. km). Capital: Baghdad.
- iras — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- irbm — intermediate range ballistic missile
- irda — Infrared Data Association
- irdp — ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
- irds — Information Resource Dictionary System. A set of ISO standards for CASE repositories. It governs the definition of data dictionaries to be implemented on top of relational databases (see repository, data dictionary).
- ired — Simple past tense and past participle of ire.
- ires — intense anger; wrath.
- iret — return from interrupt
- irid — any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- irie — Nice, good, or pleasing (used as a general term of approval).
- iris — Anatomy. the contractile, circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center.
- irix — (operating system) /ir'iks/ The main operating system used by Silicon Graphics workstations and servers. IRIX is multiprocessor and multi-threaded. It incorporates substantial functionality from UNIX System V, Release 4.1 and 4.2.
- irks — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- irma — a female given name, form of Erma.
- iron — 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.
- irra — the Akkadian god of pestilence.
- irsg — Internet Research Steering Group
- irtf — Internet Research Task Force
- irus — Irvine Research Unit in Software