5-letter words containing ri
- morid — (zoology) Any member of the Moridae family of fish.
- morin — (organic compound) A yellow flavonoid, extracted from fustic, once used to dye wool.
- murid — A rodent of a very large family ( Muridae ) that includes most kinds of rats, mice, and voles.
- murri — A medieval Arab condiment made from fermented barley.
- naric — relating to the nares or nostrils
- naris — A nostril.
- noria — a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- ofris — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- ohrid — Lake, a lake between E Albania and SW Macedonia, emptying into the Drin River. About 20 miles (32 km) long.
- oorie — gloomy, dismal, or chilled with cold
- oribi — a small tan-colored antelope, Ourebia ourebi , of south and east Africa, with spikelike horns.
- oriel — a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- orig. — origin
- orion — a Boeotian giant famed as a great hunter, who figures in several tales
- oriya — an Indic language spoken in Odisha, in eastern India.
- orrin — a male given name.
- orris — a lace or braid made of gold or silver, much used in the 18th century.
- ourie — shabby; dingy.
- padri — father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
- pagri — a turban or head-scarf
- pari- — equal or equally; even (in number)
- paria — Gulf of, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between the island of Trinidad and the NE coast of Venezuela.
- paris — Anatole [a-na-tawl] /a naˈtɔl/ (Show IPA), (Jacques Anatole Thibault) 1844–1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel Prize 1921.
- patri — Angelo [an-juh-loh] /ˈæn dʒəˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1965, U.S. educator and writer, born in Italy.
- peri- — enclosing, encircling, or around
- peril — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- peris — one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- pitri — the legendary progenitor of any family.
- poori — a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- prial — (in cards) a pair-royal
- priam — a king of Troy, the son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and father of Paris, Cassandra, Hector, Polyxena, and many others. He was killed during the capture of Troy.
- price — Bruce, 1845–1903, U.S. architect.
- prick — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- pricy — expensive or unduly expensive: a pricey wine.
- pride — Thomas, died 1658, English soldier and regicide.
- pried — to try, test, or taste.
- prier — a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- pries — to try, test, or taste.
- prigs — Chiefly British. a thief.
- prill — to convert (a material) into a granular free-flowing form
- prima — (of a female) first among equals.
- prime — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- primi — the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- primo — the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- primp — to dress or adorn with care.
- prims — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primy — prime
- prink — to deck or dress for show.
- print — to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.
- prion — a tiny proteinaceous particle, likened to viruses and viroids, but having no genetic component, thought to be an infectious agent in bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and similar encephalopathies.