5-letter words containing ir
- heirs — Plural form of heir.
- hiram — a king of Tyre in the 10th century b.c. I Kings 5.
- hired — Simple past tense and past participle of hire.
- hiree — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hirer — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hire.
- hirst — Damien. born 1965, British artist, noted esp for his works featuring dead animals preserved in tanks of formaldehyde, and for his 2007 sculpture, For the Love of God, a human skull encrusted with flawless diamonds
- irade — a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- iraki — a native of Iraq.
- irani — Iranian
- iraqi — a native of Iraq.
- irate — angry; enraged: an irate customer.
- irazu — Mount, a volcano in central Costa Rica. 11,200 feet (3414 meters).
- irbid — a town in NW Jordan.
- irbil — a town in N Iraq: built on the site of ancient Arbela.
- irbus — IrDA Control
- ircop — (messaging) /*r'-kop/ ("IRC" + "op", but with the, presumably intentional, alternate analysis "IRC" + "cop") Someone who is endowed with privileges on IRC, not limited to a particular channel. These privileges include channel op privileges in any channel, but also notably include the ability to disconnect a user from the IRC network. Ircops are generally people who are in charge of the IRC server at their particular site. Compare op.
- irene — Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- irgun — a militant Zionist underground group, active chiefly during the period (1917–48) of British control by mandate of Palestine.
- irian — New Guinea
- irids — any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
- irina — a female given name.
- iring — Present participle of ire.
- irish — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- irked — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- iroko — A hardwood obtained from several African trees of the genus Chlorophora.
- irone — a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- irons — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- irony — the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
- irrep — (mathematics) An irreducible representation.
- irwin — Wallace, 1875–1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
- izmir — Formerly Smyrna. a seaport in W Turkey on the Gulf of Izmir: important city of Asia Minor from ancient times.
- jabir — Geber.
- jagir — Alternative spelling of jaghir.
- jirds — Plural form of jird.
- jirga — A gathering of elders or leaders in Pakistan or Afghanistan, especially within a tribe.
- kabir — fl. late 15th century, Hindu religious reformer.
- kafir — Also called Nuristani. a member of an Indo-European people of Nuristan.
- kefir — A sour-tasting drink make from cow’s milk fermented with certain bacteria.
- keirs — a large vat in which fibers, yarns, or fabrics are boiled, bleached, or dyed.
- kirby — a fishhook having an even bend.
- kirin — a province in NE China, N of the Yalu River. 72,201 sq. mi. (187,001 sq. km). Capital: Changchun.
- kirke — Circe (def 1).
- kirks — Plural form of kirk.
- kirov — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, N of Kazan.
- kiruv — Hebrew. the act or practice of bringing secularized Jews closer to Judaism, especially Orthodox Judaism, as through seminars, meetings, and religious rituals.
- laird — a landed proprietor.
- lairs — Plural form of lair.
- lairy — of, relating to, or characteristic of a lair.
- loire — a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.