7-letter words containing r, i
- airflow — The airflow around an object or vehicle is the way that the air flows around it.
- airfoil — a cross section of an aileron, wing, tailplane, or rotor blade
- airglow — the faint light from the upper atmosphere in the night sky, esp in low latitudes
- airguns — Plural form of airgun.
- airhead — If you describe someone, especially a young woman, as an airhead, you are critical of them because you think they are not at all clever and are interested only in unimportant things.
- airhole — A hole provided for ventilation or breathing.
- airhose — a hose for conducting air under pressure, as one connected to an air pump, an air brake, or a scuba tank.
- airiest — Superlative form of airy.
- airings — Plural form of airing.
- airlane — Alternative spelling of air lane.
- airless — If a place is airless, there is no fresh air in it.
- airlift — An airlift is an operation to move people, troops, or goods by air, especially in a war or when land routes are closed.
- airlike — resembling air
- airline — An airline is a company which provides regular services carrying people or goods in aeroplanes.
- airlock — An airlock is a small room that is used to move between areas which do not have the same air pressure, for example in a spacecraft or submarine.
- airmada — a large fleet or flight of airplanes assigned to a specific mission: shipping lanes guarded by a giant airmada overhead.
- airmail — Airmail is the system of sending letters, parcels, and goods by air.
- airpack — an apparatus consisting of a face mask connected to a portable air supply, as an air tank that can be strapped to one's back, used especially by firefighters and search teams in areas of smoke, poisonous fumes, intense heat, etc.
- airpark — a small airport often near a business or residential area
- airpipe — an airhose connecting the mouthpiece of scuba diving equipment to its air supply.
- airplay — The airplay which a piece of popular music receives is the number of times it is played on the radio.
- airport — An airport is a place where aircraft land and take off, which has buildings and facilities for passengers.
- airpost — the system of delivering mail by air; airmail
- airprox — a near collision between two or more aircraft
- airshed — a region sharing a common flow of air, which may become uniformly polluted and stagnant
- airship — An airship is an aircraft that consists of a large balloon which is filled with gas and is powered by an engine. It has a section underneath for passengers.
- airshot — aircheck
- airshow — An airshow is an event at which aeroplane pilots entertain the public by performing very skilful and complicated movements with the aircraft in the sky.
- airsick — If you are airsick when you are traveling on an aircraft, you experience nausea as a result of the aircraft's motion.
- airside — the part of an airport nearest the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, etc
- airsoft — A modern combat sport in which participants eliminate their opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a compressed-air gun.
- airstop — a landing place for helicopters
- airthed — a direction.
- airtime — the time allocated to a particular programme, item, topic, or type of material on radio or television
- airting — a direction.
- airward — upwards; towards the air
- airwash — to cool (a roof or the like) with a current of air.
- airwave — a channel for broadcasting radio or television signals
- airways — The passage by which air reaches a person's lungs.
- airwise — having skill in flying
- aj, sir — Sir A(lfred) J(ules) 1910–1989, English philosopher, teacher, and author.
- akhisar — a town in W Turkey, NE of Izmir.
- akiraho — a small New Zealand shrub, Olearia paniculata, with white flowers
- akrasia — weakness of will; acting in a way contrary to one's sincerely held moral values
- alberti — Leon Battista (leˈɔn batˈtista). 1404–72, Italian Renaissance architect, painter, writer, and musician; among his architectural designs are the façades of Sta. Maria Novella at Florence and S. Francesco at Rimini
- aldaric — Of or pertaining to an aldaric acid or its derivative.
- aldrich — Thomas Bailey1836-1907; U.S. poet & novelist
- aleardi — Count Aleardo [ah-le-ahr-daw] /ˌɑ lɛˈɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1812–78, Italian poet and patriot.
- alerion — an eagle, usually without a beak or feet
- alfieri — Count Vittorio (vitˈtɔːrjo). 1749–1803, Italian dramatist and poet, noted for his classical tragedies and political satires