5-letter words containing ri
- triff — very good indeed; terrific
- triga — a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a team of three horses.
- trigo — wheat; field of wheat.
- trike — tricycle.
- trill — to cause to flow in a thin stream.
- trime — a former silver three-cent coin of the U.S., issued from 1851 to 1873.
- trine — threefold; triple.
- trini — a native or inhabitant of Trinidad; Trinidadian
- triol — a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- tripe — the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- trite — lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
- turin — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- ugric — a branch of the Uralic family of languages, consisting of Hungarian and two languages, Khanty and Mansi, spoken in western Siberia.
- unrid — unridden
- unrig — to strip of rigging, as a ship.
- unrip — to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
- uriah — Also, Douay Bible, Urias [yoo-rahy-uh s] /yʊˈraɪ əs/ (Show IPA). Also called Uriah the Hittite. the husband of Bathsheba, and an officer in David's army. II Sam. 11.
- urial — a wild, bearded sheep, Ovis vignei, of southern Asia, having a reddish coat.
- uriel — one of the archangels. II Esdras 4.
- urin- — urino-
- urine — the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
- urite — a segment or part of the abdomen in insects
- uteri — the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain mammals.
- varia — a variant reading.
- varix — Also called varicosity. Pathology. a permanent abnormal dilation and lengthening of a vein, usually accompanied by some tortuosity; a varicose vein.
- virid — green or verdant: the virid woodlands of spring.
- vries — Hugo [hyoo-goh;; Dutch hy-goh] /ˈhyu goʊ;; Dutch ˈhü goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1935, Dutch botanist and student of organic heredity: developed the concept of mutation as a factor in the process of evolution.
- wrick — A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back.
- wried — Simple past tense and past participle of wry.
- wrier — produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features: a wry grin.
- wries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wry.
- wrily — In a wry manner.
- wring — to twist forcibly: He wrung the chicken's neck.
- wrist — the carpus or lower part of the forearm where it joins the hand.
- write — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- writh — Eye dialect of writhe.
- writs — Plural form of writ.
- xeric — of, relating to, or adapted to a dry environment.
- zaria — a city in N central Nigeria.
- zoril — a weasellike African animal, Ictonyx striatus, resembling a skunk in coloration and habits.
- zoris — Plural form of zori.