7-letter words containing w, r, i
- hotwire — Alternative spelling of hot-wire.
- imbower — Archaic form of embower.
- impower — Archaic form of empower.
- indrawn — reserved; introspective: a quiet, indrawn man.
- ingrown — having grown into the flesh: an ingrown toenail.
- inwards — toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.
- jowlier — Comparative form of jowly.
- korowai — a decorative woven cloak worn by a Māori chief
- lerwick — a city in and the administrative center of the Shetland Islands, N of Scotland.
- lowlier — Comparative form of lowly.
- mcgwire — Mark David, born 1963, U.S. baseball player.
- midword — Within a word.
- misdraw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- misgrow — (ambitransitive) To grow incorrectly or amiss.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- miswire — 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.
- misword — to word incorrectly.
- norwich — a city in E Norfolk, in E England: cathedral.
- periwig — a wig, especially a peruke.
- pilcrow — a paragraph mark.
- pinwork — (in the embroidery of needlepoint lace) crescent-shaped stitches raised from the surface of the design.
- pinworm — a small nematode worm, Enterobius vermicularis, infesting the intestine and migrating to the rectum and anus, especially in children.
- powhiri — a Māori ceremony of welcome, esp to a marae
- preview — an earlier or previous view.
- prewire — 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.
- purview — the range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.
- railway — a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
- rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
- rawhide — untanned skin of cattle or other animals.
- rawlins — a town in S Wyoming.
- re-view — a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- redwing — a European thrush, Turdus iliacus, having chestnut-red flank and axillary feathers.
- renwick — James, 1818–95, U.S. architect.
- retwist — to twist again
- reweigh — to weigh (an object or quantity) again
- rewiden — to widen again
- rewrite — to write in a different form or manner; revise: to rewrite the entire book.
- ribwork — work or structure involving ribs in, for example, knitting or architectural work
- ribwort — English plantain.
- ridgway — Matthew Bunker, 1895–1993, U.S. army general: chief of staff 1953–55.
- ringtaw — a game of marbles in which players attempt to knock other players' marbles out of a ring
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- rowdier — a rough, disorderly person.
- rowdily — a rough, disorderly person.
- rowling — J(oanne) K(athleen) born 1965, English author of children's books.
- ryswick — a town in SW Netherlands, near The Hague: Treaty of Ryswick 1697.
- semiraw — (of food) not fully cooked; (of materials) not fully processed; raw to some degree
- skiwear — activewear designed to be worn for skiing, as jackets, sweaters, and pants.
- surview — a survey (with the eyes or mind)
- swifter — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.