4-letter words containing r, i
- isar — a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- isra — Muhammad's Night Journey from the Kaʿba at Mecca to Jerusalem.
- itar — International Traffic in Arms Regulation
- iter — a canal or passage.
- iure — by law
- ivar — a male or female given name.
- ivor — a male given name.
- ivry — Eye dialect of every.
- iyar — the eighth month of the Jewish calendar.
- izar — a long, usually white cotton dress that covers the body completely, worn by women of North Africa and the Middle East.
- jeri — a female given name, form of Geraldine.
- jird — any of several species of small, burrowing rodents of the genus Meriones, subfamily Gerbillinae, inhabiting dry regions of Asia and northern Africa.
- keir — a large vat in which fibers, yarns, or fabrics are boiled, bleached, or dyed.
- kier — a large vat in which fibers, yarns, or fabrics are boiled, bleached, or dyed.
- kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
- kirn — a harvest celebration; a feast or party celebrating a successful harvest.
- kori — The monetary unit of w Kutch prior to 1947, divided into 24 dokda.
- krai — A region or province in Russia (край).
- krim — Crimea
- krio — an English-based creole of Sierra Leone, a first language of the residents of Freetown and its environs, and a lingua franca elsewhere in the country.
- kris — a short sword or heavy dagger with a wavy blade, used by the Malays.
- kuri — a mongrel dog
- lair — A wild animal's resting place, especially one that is well hidden.
- lari — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- liar — MIT Scheme
- lier — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lira — a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- lire — a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- lirk — (transitive, UK dialectal) To jerk.
- lirt — (transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; beguile.
- loir — a large species, Myoxus glis, of edible dormouse
- lori — a feminine name
- mair — (Geordie) more.
- mari — a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- meir — Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- meri — a Māori war club
- micr — (business, printer) (MICR) A character recognition system using special ink and characters which can be magnetised and read automatically. MICR is used almost exclusively in the banking industry where it is used to print details on cheques to enable automatic processing.
- mira — Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mire — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- miri — a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- mirk — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- miro — Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- mirv — multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle.
- miry — of the nature of mire; swampy: miry ground.
- misr — Arabic name of Egypt.
- mori — (italics) Latin. remember that you must die.
- mria — Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- muir — Edwin, 1887–1959, English poet.
- muri — Plural form of murus.
- nair — a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.