5-letter words containing ir
- siret — a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- siris — lebbek (def 1).
- sirts — Single Image Random Text Stereogram. (Or ASCII stereogram).
- sirup — to bring to the form or consistency of syrup.
- skirl — to play the bagpipe.
- skirr — to go rapidly; fly; scurry.
- skirt — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
- slirp — (networking, tool) A SLIP emulator by Danny Gasparovski, faster than TIA. Version: 0.95H 12 Sep 95.
- smirk — to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
- speir — to ask; inquire
- spir- — spiro-2
- spire — a coil or spiral.
- spirt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spiry — spiral; coiled; coiling; helical.
- stair — one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- stirk — a young bull or cow, especially one in its second year.
- stirp — a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- sweir — lazy
- swire — a neck, or depression, between two hills
- swirl — to move around or along with a whirling motion; whirl; eddy.
- taira — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled the country 1160–85.
- tapir — any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- their — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- thira — Thera.
- third — next after the second; being the ordinal number for three.
- thirl — to pierce.
- tiran — Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- tired — having a tire or tires.
- tiree — an island off the W coast of Scotland, in the Inner Hebrides. Pop: 770 (2001). Area: 78 sq km (30 sq miles)
- tirol — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- tiros — one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- twire — to look at (someone or something) intently or with difficulty
- twirl — to cause to rotate rapidly; spin; revolve; whirl.
- twirp — an insignificant or despicable fellow: Her father thinks her boyfriend is just a twerp.
- vaire — of Russian squirrel fur
- vairy — decorated with a vair or vairs
- vanir — a race of gods, first in conflict with the Aesir, later allied with them. They function as fertility divinities and include Njord, Frey, and Freyja.
- viral — of, relating to, or caused by a virus.
- viren — Lasse [lahs-se] /ˈlɑs sɛ/ (Show IPA), born 1949, Finnish distance runner.
- vireo — any of several small, insectivorous American birds of the family Vireonidae, having the plumage usually olive-green or gray above and white or yellow below.
- vires — strength; force; power.
- virga — streaks of water drops or ice particles falling out of a cloud and evaporating before reaching the ground (distinguished from praecipitatio).
- virgo — zodiac sign: Virgin
- virid — green or verdant: the virid woodlands of spring.
- virls — ferrule (def 1).
- viron — a male given name.
- virtu — excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
- virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
- vizir — (formerly) a high official in certain Muslim countries and caliphates, especially a minister of state. Compare grand vizier.
- wazir — Alternative form of vizier.