5-letter words containing i, r
- cyril — Saint. ?827–869 ad, Greek Christian theologian, missionary to the Moravians and inventor of the Cyrillic alphabet; he and his brother Saint Methodius were called the Apostles of the Slavs. Feast day: Feb 14 or May 11
- cyrix — (company) A microprocessor manufacturer. They produce an Intel 486 equivalent - the Cy486SLC and a Pentium equivalent - the Cyrix 6x86.
- dairy — A dairy is a shop or company that sells milk and food made from milk, such as butter, cream, and cheese.
- dakir — Alternative form of daker.
- daric — a gold coin of ancient Persia
- dario — Rubén (ruˈβen), real name Félix Rubén Garcia Sarmiento. 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet whose poetry includes Prosas Profanas (1896)
- darzi — (in India) a tailor
- debir — a royal city in the vicinity of Hebron, conquered by Othniel.
- deira — kingdom in present-day NE England in the 6th century a.d., merged with Bernicia to form the kingdom of Northumbria.
- derig — the removal of equipment or rigging
- deriv — derivation
- dhikr — a meeting of dervishes at which a phrase containing a name of God is chanted rhythmically to induce a state of ecstasy.
- diary — A diary is a book which has a separate space for each day of the year. You use a diary to write down things you plan to do, or to record what happens in your life day by day.
- dicer — to cut into small cubes.
- diers — Plural form of dier.
- diker — A ditcher.
- dimer — a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- dinar — any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- diner — a person who dines.
- dirac — Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- diram — A Tajikistani coin; 100 dirams equal one somoni.
- direr — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirft — Do It Right the First Time
- dirge — a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- dirgy — Like a dirge; funereal.
- dirke — Obsolete form of dirk.
- dirks — Plural form of dirk.
- dirls — to vibrate; shake.
- dirts — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- dirty — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- disir — lady; woman.
- distr — distributed
- diver — a person or thing that dives.
- dixer — (Australia, politics) A planted question in Parliamentary w Question time.
- doric — of or relating to Doris, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
- doris — an ancient region in central Greece: the earliest home of the Dorians.
- drail — a hook with a lead-covered shank used in trolling.
- drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- dribs — Plural form of drib.
- drice — frozen carbon dioxide
- dried — simple past tense and past participle of dry.
- drier — a person or thing that dries.
- dries — a plural of dry.
- drift — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- drill — a large, baboonlike monkey, Mandrillus leucophaeus, of western Africa, similar to the related mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored: now endangered.
- drily — dryly.
- drina — a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.
- drink — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- drips — Plural form of drip.
- dript — a simple past tense and past participle of drop.