4-letter words containing r, i
- rivo — an informal toast or drinking cry
- riza — a cover of gilt or silvered metal whose purpose is to protect a religious work of art or icon, leaving spaces for the hands and face of the subject to show through
- rnib — Royal National Institute of Blind People
- rnid — Royal National Institute for Deaf People
- rnli — Royal National Lifeboat Institution
- rodi — Italian name of Rhodes.
- roil — to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- roji — a Japanese tea garden or the path of stones which leads to the tea room
- roti — roast.
- rubi — furigana
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- rumi — Jalal ud-din [Persian jah-lahl ood-deen,, oo d-,, ja-] /Persian dʒɑˈlɑl udˈdin,, ʊd-,, dʒæ-/ (Show IPA), Jalal ud-din Rumi.
- sari — a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- seir — a fish, Cybidium guttatum, of Indian seas belonging to the mackerel family
- seri — a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- sire — the male parent of a quadruped.
- siri — An object-oriented constraint language using a single abstraction mechanism developed by Bruce Horn of CMU in 1991. Siri is a conceptual blend of BETA and Bertrand. It is similar to Kaleidoscope.
- smir — drizzly rain
- sori — plural of sorus.
- sris — a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- ssri — selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; any of a class of drugs, including fluvoxamine, paroxetine, fluoxetine (Prozac), and Lustral, that increase concentrations of serotonin in the brain: used in the treatment of depression
- stir — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- tier — a person or thing that ties.
- tigr — Treasury Investment Growth Receipts: a bond denominated in dollars and linked to US treasury bonds, the yield on which is taxed in the UK as income when it is cashed or redeemed
- tire — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
- tirl — a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- tiro — tyro.
- tirr — to strip or take clothes off
- tori — plural of torus.
- tri- — Tri- is used at the beginning of nouns and adjectives that have 'three' as part of their meaning.
- trig — a wedge or block used to prevent a wheel, cask, or the like, from rolling.
- trim — to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc.: to trim a hedge.
- trin — three young born during one birth; triplets
- trio — a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- trip — a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock.
- trit — triturate
- uric — of, pertaining to, contained in, or derived from urine.
- vair — a fur much used for lining and trimming garments in the 13th and 14th centuries, generally assumed to have been that of a variety of squirrel with a gray back and white belly. Compare miniver (def 1).
- vari — a nocturnal, nesting lemur, Varecia variegata, native to Madagascar, having black and white fur and a mane: an endangered species.
- vier — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- vire — a type of arrow which had a turning motion and which was formerly used with a crossbow
- virl — ferrule (def 1).
- vril — a life force
- wair — A plank 6 feet long and 1 foot across.
- wari — (games) a board game of the mancala family.
- weir — a small dam in a river or stream.
- whir — to go, fly, revolve, or otherwise move quickly with a humming or buzzing sound: An electric fan whirred softly in the corner.
- wier — Alternative form of weir.
- wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- wirw — Whidbey Island Race Week