5-letter words containing i, r
- chirl — a trilling or quavering sound
- chirm — the chirping of birds
- chiro — a chiropractor
- chirp — When a bird or an insect such as a cricket or grasshopper chirps, it makes short high-pitched sounds.
- chirr — (esp of certain insects, such as crickets) to make a shrill trilled sound
- chirt — an act of pressing or squashing that expresses liquid
- chiru — a Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, having a dense woolly pinkish-brown fleece prized as the source of shahtoosh wool: now close to extinction due to illegal slaughter for its fleece
- choir — A choir is a group of people who sing together, for example in a church or school.
- chris — a male given name, form of Christopher.
- cider — Cider is a drink made from apples which in Britain usually contains alcohol. In the United States, cider does not usually contain alcohol, and if it does contain alcohol, it is usually called hard cider.
- cigar — Cigars are rolls of dried tobacco leaves which people smoke.
- cipro — a synthetic antibiotic, C17H18FN3O3·HCl·H2O, used in treating urinary tract infections, lung infections, etc.
- circa — Circa is used in front of a particular year to say that this is the approximate date when something happened or was made.
- circe — an enchantress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
- circs — circumstances
- cirio — boojum tree.
- cirri — cirrus (sense 1)
- citer — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- clair — René (rəne), real name René Chomette. 1898–1981, French film director; noted for his comedies including An Italian Straw Hat (1928) and pioneering sound films such as Sous les toits de Paris (1930); later films include Les Belles de nuit (1952)
- corgi — A corgi is a type of small dog with short legs and a pointed nose.
- coria — plural of corium.
- corti — Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- craic — If you are talking about something that you did and you say 'the craic was great', or 'it was a good craic', you mean that you had a really good time, especially because everyone was talking, joking, and laughing.
- craig — Edward Gordon. 1872–1966, English theatrical designer, actor, and director. His nonrealistic scenic design greatly influenced theatre in Europe and the US
- craxi — Bettino (beˈtiːno). 1934–2000, Italian socialist statesman; prime minister (1983–87)
- crias — a baby vicuna, llama, guanaco, or alpaca.
- cribs — A young child's bed with barred or latticed sides.
- crick — If you have a crick in your neck or in your back, you have a pain there caused by muscles becoming stiff.
- cried — cry
- crier — a person or animal that cries
- cries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cry.
- crile — George Washington1864-1943; U.S. surgeon
- crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
- crimp — If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
- crims — Plural form of crim.
- crine — the hair
- crios — a multicoloured woven woollen belt traditionally worn by men in the Aran Islands
- crips — Plural form of crip.
- crise — crisis.
- crisp — Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- crit. — critic
- crith — a unit of weight for gases, equal to the weight of one litre of hydrogen at standard pressure and temperature (0.09 grams)
- crits — Plural form of crit.
- crius — a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
- croci — Plural form of crocus.
- csiro — Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
- curia — the papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
- curie — Marie (mari). 1867–1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and was awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry (1911)
- curio — A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare.
- curli — curled hairlike processes on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds