4-letter words containing r, i
- neri — Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- nier — Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- nirl — a lump or nodule
- nlri — network layer reachability information
- noir — black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- nori — a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- nrzi — Non Return to Zero Inverted
- nuri — a member of an Indo-European people of Nuristan and neighbouring parts of Pakistan
- okri — Ben. born 1959, Nigerian writer; his books include the Booker-prizewinning The Famished Road (1991), Dangerous Love (1996), and In Arcadia (2002)
- omri — a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- pair — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- pari — (mathematics, tool) A system for symbolic mathematics, especially number theory. Version 1.37 for Unix, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Amiga. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- peri — 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.
- pier — a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- pire — Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- pirl — Pattern Information Retrieval Language. A language for digraph manipulation, embeddable in Fortran or ALGOL, for IBM 7094.
- pirn — a fishing reel.
- piro — piroplasmosis.
- pori — a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- prie — to try, test, or taste.
- prig — Chiefly British. a thief.
- prii — a brand of hybrid car, one of the first commercially successful, that runs at lower speeds on an electric motor powered by a battery pack, and at higher speeds on a gasoline engine, which can also recharge the battery.
- prim — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- prin — principal
- prix — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- puir — poor.
- puri — poori.
- qari — (Islam) One who recites the Qur'an according to the tajwid, or proper rules of recitation.
- rabi — the fourth month of the Muslim calendar.
- ragi — a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- raia — rayah.
- raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- raik — a route, a journey
- rail — any of numerous birds of the family Rallidae, that have short wings, a narrow body, long toes, and a harsh cry and inhabit grasslands, forests, and marshes in most parts of the world.
- rain — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rais — Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
- raki — a spirituous liquor distilled from grain, grapes, plums, etc., in southeastern Europe and the Near East.
- rami — plural of ramus.
- rani — ranee.
- ravi — a river in NW India and NE Pakistan, flowing from the Himlayas SW to the Chenab River: a headwater of the Indus River and one of the “five rivers” of the Punjab. 475 miles (764 km) long.
- redi — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1626?–98, Italian biologist.
- refi — a refinancing of a debt
- rehi — (chat) Hello again.
- reid — Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- reif — plunder; booty; loot.
- reik — Theodor [thee-uh-dawr,, -dohr;; German tey-aw-dawr] /ˈθi əˌdɔr,, -ˌdoʊr;; German ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1888–1969, U.S. psychologist and author, born in Austria.
- rein — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reis — a former Portuguese and Brazilian money of account
- reit — real-estate investment trust.
- reni — Guido [gwee-daw] /ˈgwi dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1575–1642, Italian painter.