5-letter words containing ri
- irian — New Guinea
- irids — any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- irina — a female given name.
- iring — Present participle of ire.
- irish — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- jerid — a blunt wooden javelin used in games played on horseback in certain Muslim countries in the Middle East.
- karri — an Australian gum tree, Eucalyptus diversicolor.
- kauri — Also, kauri pine. a tall, coniferous tree, Agathis australis, of New Zealand, yielding a valuable timber and a resin.
- keris — Alternative spelling of kris.
- kirin — a province in NE China, N of the Yalu River. 72,201 sq. mi. (187,001 sq. km). Capital: Changchun.
- koori — a native Australian
- korin — A small gazelle native to West Africa, Eudorcas rufifrons.
- krieg — war1 .
- krill — any of the small, pelagic, shrimplike crustaceans of the family Euphausiidae, eaten as food by certain whales.
- kriol — a creole language used by Aboriginal communities in the northern regions of Australia, developed from Northern Territory pidgin
- krips — Josef [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1902–74, Austrian orchestra conductor.
- kríti — Crete
- kriya — (Yoga) a technique or practice within a yoga discipline, also the outward physical manifestations of awakened kundalini.
- kukri — a large knife having a heavy curved blade that is sharp on the concave side, used by the Napalese Gurkhas for hunting and combat.
- kyrie — (italics) the brief petition “Lord, have mercy,” used in various offices of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Roman Catholic Church.
- laari — lari.
- larid — (zoology) Any member of the Laridae.
- laris — Plural form of lari.
- libri — phloem.
- loria — Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications
- lorin — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- loris — Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- luria — Salvador Edward, 1912–91, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.
- lurid — gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
- lurie — Alison. born 1926, US novelist. Her novels include Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates (1974), Foreign Affairs (1985), and The Last Resort (1998)
- lyric — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- maori — a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- maria — nightmare (def 3).
- marid — a spirit in Arabian and Muslim mythology
- marie — (Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- maril — Machine description language used by the Marion code generator.
- marin — John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- mario — a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- maris — Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- marri — a species of eucalyptus, Eucalyptus calophylla, of Western Australia, widely cultivated for its coloured flowers
- mauri — (NZ) life force, according to Maori beliefs.
- mbari — (Nigeria, West Africa) A ceremonial clay shrine filled with clay models of humans or deities, made by the Igbo tribe.
- meril — a counter used in the game of merils
- merin — Mirim.
- merit — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- mirid — An active plant bug of a large family that includes numerous plant pests.
- mirim — Lake, a lake on the E Uruguay-S Brazil border. About 108 miles (174 km) long.
- mirin — a Japanese cooking wine made from rice, sweeter than sake.
- moria — a mountainous region in S Palestine, where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Gen. 22:3.
- moric — Derived or extracted from (a member of) the Morus genus (the mulberries).