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4-letter words containing ir

  • iirc — (chat)   If I recall/remember correctly.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • lair — A wild animal's resting place, especially one that is well hidden.
  • 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
  • mair — (Geordie) more.
  • meir — Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
  • 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.
  • muir — Edwin, 1887–1959, English poet.
  • nair — a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
  • nirl — a lump or nodule
  • noir — black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
  • pair — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
  • pire — Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
  • pirl — Pattern Information Retrieval Language. A language for digraph manipulation, embeddable in Fortran or ALGOL, for IBM 7094.
  • pirn — a fishing reel.
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