9-letter words containing ri
- air varie — a melody with variations.
- air-dried — preserved by exposing to the air and allowing to dry
- airbricks — Plural form of airbrick.
- airstrike — a military attack involving aircraft
- airstrips — Plural form of airstrip.
- al-ashari — Abu ʾl-Hasan [ah-boo al-ha-san] /ˈɑ bu æl hæˈsæn/ (Show IPA), a.d. c873–936, the formulator of the classical synthesis in Islamic philosophical theology known as Ashʿarism.
- albricias — an expression of joy
- aleatoric — designating or of music that involves chance or unpredictability in composition or performance or both
- alfilaria — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, native to Europe, with finely divided leaves and small pink or purplish flowers. It is widely naturalized in North America and is used as fodder
- alfileria — Alt form alfilaria.
- algorithm — An algorithm is a series of mathematical steps, especially in a computer program, which will give you the answer to a particular kind of problem or question.
- alizarine — Alizarin.
- all right — If you say that someone or something is all right, you mean that you find them satisfactory or acceptable.
- all-right — safe; sound: Are you all right?
- allegoric — consisting of or pertaining to allegory; of the nature of or containing allgegory; figurative: an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning.
- allethrin — a clear viscous amber-coloured liquid used as an insecticide and synergist. Formula: C19H26O3; relative density: 1.005
- allobaric — of or relating to change in atmospheric pressure: allobaric wind.
- alt-right — (in the US) a political movement whose supporters hold extreme right-wing views and reject mainstream politics
- altricial — (of the young of some species of birds after hatching) naked, blind, and dependent on the parents for food
- amaritude — Bitterness.
- amatorial — of or relating to lovers or lovemaking; expressive of love: amatory poems; an amatory look.
- amatorian — amatorial
- ambergris — Ambergris is a waxy substance produced by sperm whales. It is used to make some perfumes.
- americana — Objects that come from or relate to America are referred to as Americana, especially when they are in a collection.
- americano — a drink consisting of espresso coffee diluted with hot water
- americium — a white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium. It is used as an alpha-particle source. Symbol: Am; atomic no: 95; half-life of most stable isotope, 243Am: 7.4 × 103 years; valency: 2,3,4,5, or 6; relative density: 13.67; melting pt: 1176°C; boiling pt: 2607°C (est)
- ameristic — not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- amiloride — a potassium-sparing diuretic, C 6 H 8 ClN 7 O, used in the treatment of hypertension.
- amoristic — relating to, or characteristic of, romantic love
- anacharis — a genus of water plant native to North America and commonly used in aquariums
- anaphoria — (symptom) A tendency for both eyes to look upward.
- anaphoric — of or relating to anaphora
- anarthria — loss of the ability to speak coherently
- anarthric — relating to anarthria
- anchoring — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchorite — a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
- angriness — the state or quality of being angry
- anhydride — a compound that has been formed from another compound by dehydration
- anhydrite — a colourless or greyish-white mineral, found in sedimentary rocks. It is used in the manufacture of cement, fertilizers, and chemicals. Composition: anhydrous calcium sulphate. Formula: CaSO4. Crystal structure: orthorhombic
- ansgarius — Latin name of Ansgar.
- answering — Present participle of answer.
- ant tribe — (in China) a generation of young people who have migrated from rural areas to cities in large numbers
- anthurium — any of various tropical American aroid plants constituting the genus Anthurium, many of which are cultivated as house plants for their showy foliage and their flowers, which are borne in a long-stalked spike surrounded by a flaring heart-shaped white or red bract
- anticrime — preventing or fighting crime
- antiprism — A polyhedron composed of two parallel copies of some particular polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles.
- antlerite — an emerald to blackish-green mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 3 (OH) 4 SO 4 , a major copper ore in Chile.
- antshrike — any of several antbirds, especially of the genus Thamnophilus, superficially resembling the shrike.
- aperients — Plural form of aperient.
- aperiodic — not periodic; not occurring at regular intervals
- aperitifs — Plural form of aperitif.