5-Letter Words with I: page 4

All 2,168 five-letter words with I: page 4 of 6

M

• misri7n. Rock sugar.
• missa7n. A mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the...
• misso7n. Missus (“wife or girlfriend”).
• missy10n. A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically...
• misty10adj. Covered in mist; foggy.
• mitch12v. To pilfer; filch; steal.
• mitis7n. A process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought...
• mitra7n. A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a...
• mitre7n. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church...
• mitta7n. An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
• mitty10n. The storm petrel.
• mixed15adj. Having two or more separate aspects.
• mixer14n. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
• mixin14n. An uninstantiable class that provides functionality to be inherited by...
• mixte14n. A kind of bicycle frame where the top tube of the traditional diamond...
• mizzy28n. A bog or quagmire.
• mochi12n. A small Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice.
• moire7n. Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat.
• moist7adj. Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
• moloi7n. A magician, witch, wizard, or other magic-user, especially in...
• monic9adj. Of a polynomial whose leading coefficient is one.
• mooli7n. Synonym of daikon, particularly its Indian varieties.
• moria7n. Excessive frivolity; an inability to be serious.
• morin7n. A yellow flavonoid, extracted from fustic, once used to dye wool.
• motif10n. A recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.
• motti7n. Encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment.
• mouli7n. A hand-operated kitchen utensil designed for grating or pureeing small...
• movie10n. A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate...
• moxie14n. Nerve, spunk, strength of character.
• mucin9n. Any of several glycoproteins found in mucus.
• mufti10n. A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.
• mugil8n. Any fish of the genus Mugil of mugilid mullets.
• mukim13n. A level of administrative division used in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia...
• mukti11n. Feminine synonym of masculine substantive noun मोक्ष (mokṣa...
• mulai7n. A title for the ruler of Morocco.
• multi7n. A multituberculate.
• munia7n. Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most...
• murid8adj. Of or belonging to the family Muridae.
• murri7n. A medieval Arab condiment made from fermented barley.
• murti7n. A sacred image of a deity.
• music9n. A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some...
• mutie7n. A mutant.
• mycin12n. Any -mycin compound.
• mysid11n. Any crustacean of the order Mysida.
• mysis10n. A set of growth stages in the larvae of Decapoda after protozoea and...

N

• nadir6n. The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith...
• naiad6n. A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring...
• naias5n. Synonym of naiad (“female water deity”).
• nails5n. The four round-topped pedestals outside the Corn Exchange in Bristol on...
• naira5n. The official currency of Nigeria. Equal to 100 kobo. (The naira...
• naive8adj. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
• najis12adj. Ritually unclean, such that contact with it puts a Muslim in a state of...
• nanti5det. No; not any.
• naqib16n. One of the leading missionaries of the Hashimiyya movement who prepared...
• naris5n. A nostril.
• nasib7n. An Arabic literary form, 'usually defined as an erotic or amatory...
• nasri5n. A coin formerly used as a currency unit in Tunisia from medieval to...
• neigh9n. The cry of a horse.
• ngaio6n. An evergreen tree of species Myoporum laetum, native to New Zealand.
• ngoni6n. A West African stringed instrument, shaped like a guitar.
• nibba9n. Nigger or nigga.
• nicad8n. Rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery.
• niche10n. A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall...
• nicor7n. A sea monster.
• nidal6adj. Of or pertaining to a nidus.
• nidus6n. An aggregate of neurons.
• niece7n. A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either...
• nifty11adj. Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way.
• niger6n. An Ethiopian herb (Guizotia abyssinica), grown for its seed and edible...
• night9n. The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
• nihil8n. A nihil dicit.
• nikah12n. A Muslim wedding.
• nikka13n. A bowdlerization of nigga used as a reclaimed sense of nigger.
• nimbo9n. The neem tree.
• nimby12adj. Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near...
• niner5n. Something nine inches long, or holding nine gallons, etc.
• nines5n. A pair of nines.
• ninja12n. One trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage...
• ninny8n. A silly or foolish person.
• ninon5n. A sheer fabric of silk, rayon, or nylon made in a variety of tight...
• ninth8adj. The ordinal form of the number nine.
• nippy12adj. Fast; speedy.
• niqab16n. A veil which covers the face (except for the eyes), worn by some Muslim...
• nisei5n. One whose parents were Japanese immigrants, especially to North or...
• nishi8n. The left-hand (less prestigious) side of the banzuke (番付, “ranking...
• nisin5n. A polycyclic peptide produced by fermentation with the bacterium...
• nisus5n. A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
• nitch10n. A notch or small incision.
• niter5n. A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making...
• niton5n. Former name of radon.
• nitre5n. UK standard spelling of niter.
• nitro5n. The univalent NO₂ functional group.
• nitta5n. A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds...
• nitty8adj. Foolish, inane.
• nival8adj. Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference...
• nixes12n. Nothing.
• nixie12n. A female nix, a water-spirit.
• nizam16n. The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India.
• noise5n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• noisy8adj. Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound.
• nomia7n. Any of various ground-nesting halictid bees of the genus Nomia, native...
• nomic9adj. Customary; ordinary; applied to the usual spelling of a language, in...
• nooit5adv. Never; no way.
• noria5n. A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
• nosie5n. A nose.
• notif8n. Notification (from an electronic device).
• nubia7n. A light, knitted headscarf worn by women.
• nudie6n. Entertainment involving naked people, especially women.

O

• oasis5n. A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation...
• odium8n. Hatred; dislike.
• odori6n. An energetic Japanese style of folk dance.
• ogive9n. The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
• ohmic12adj. Of or relating to, or measured in, ohms.
• oikos9n. A basic societal unit in Ancient Greece; a household or family line.
• oiled6adj. Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
• oiler5n. An assistant in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper...
• oiran5n. A high-status courtesan in Japan.
• okapi11n. A ruminant (Okapia johnstoni) found in the rainforests of the Congo...
• okina9n. The Hawaiian apostrophe-like letter (ʻ ) used to indicate the glottal...
• okiya12n. The lodging-house of a geisha.
• oldie6n. Something or someone old.
• oleic7adj. Of or pertaining to oil, especially to vegetable oil.
• olein5n. Any naturally-occurring greasy or oily substance related to fat.
• oligo6n. An oligonucleotide.
• oliva8n. Olivary body.
• olive8n. A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the...
• ollie5n. An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground...
• omiai7n. A Japanese custom in which unattached individuals are introduced to...
• omics9n. Any of several biological subfields that aim to identify or...
• onion5n. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as...
• onium7n. Any cation derived by the addition of a proton to the hydride of any...
• ontic7adj. Ontological.
• opine7v. To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider...
• opium9n. A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice...
• oppai9n. A woman's breasts, particularly of an anime or manga character.
• opsin7n. Any of a group of light-sensitive proteins in the retina.
• optic9adj. Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
• orbit7n. An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or...
• oribi7n. Ourebia ourebi, a species of antelope.
• oriel5n. A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a...
• origo6n. The reference point on which a deictic relationship is based.
• orris5n. Any of several irises that have a fragrant root, especially Iris ×...
• osier5n. A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe...
• ossia5n. In a musical score, an alternative version of a passage, usually just a...
• ousia5n. The essential nature or ‘substance’ of God, often as contrasted to the...
• outie5n. A navel that protrudes from the abdomen.
• ovine8adj. Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; also, (not comparable)...
• ovoid9adj. Shaped like an oval.
• owing9adj. Still to be paid; owed as a debt.
• oxide13n. A binary chemical compound of oxygen with another chemical element.
• oxime14n. Any of a class of organic compounds, of general formula RR'C=NOH...
• ozeki18n. A sumo wrestler ranking below yokozuna and above sekiwake; champion.
• ozzie23n. A hospital.

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• pains7n. Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
• paint7n. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a...
• pairs7n. Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
• paisa7n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian...
• panic9adj. Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
• panin7n. A hominid of the genus Pan.
• parmi9n. A chicken parmigiana.
• parti7n. The basic, central, or main concept, drawing, or scheme of an...
• patio7n. A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation.
• patis7n. A fish sauce, a byproduct of making bagoong, used as an ingredient or...
• patti7n. A traditional residential subdivision or unit found in settlements of...
• pavis10n. Most usually, a very large shield fitted with a stand, like a small...
• peine7n. Pain or punishment.
• penni7n. A former Finnish currency unit, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of the markka.
• pepin9n. A specialized compartment found in the bacterium Thiomargarita...
• peril7n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
• petai7n. Stink bean, bitter bean (Parkia speciosa).
• petit7adj. Petite: small, little.
• petti7n. A petticoat.
• phial10n. A bottle or other vessel for containing a liquid; originally any such...
• phile10n. A pedophile.
• phish13v. To engage in phishing.
• piano7n. A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven...
• pichi12n. A small armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), native to Argentina, which is the...
• picky16adj. Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
• picon9n. A caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and...
• picot9n. An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops.
• pidge9n. A pigeonhole.
• piece9n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be...
• piety10n. Reverence and devotion to God.
• piezo16adj. Of or relating to a kind of ignition, used in portable camping stoves...
• piggy12n. A pig (the animal).
• piked12adj. Furnished with a pike; ending in a point.
• piker11n. A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
• pikey14n. A pike (type of fish).
• pilaf10n. A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking...
• pilar7adj. Relating to hair.
• pilau7adj. Filthy.
• pilch12n. A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.
• piled8adj. Formed from a pile or fagot.
• piles7n. A large amount of.
• pilin7n. Any of a class of fibrous proteins found in pilus structures in...
• pilly10adj. Covered in pills (particles created by mechanical wear).
• pilon7n. A conical loaf of sugar.
• pilot7n. A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
• pilum9n. A Roman military javelin.
• pilus7n. A hair.
• pinch12v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• pinda8n. A small bag for Ayurvedic massage, filled with aromatic herbs.
• piner7n. An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.
• pingo8n. A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift...
• pinin7n. A protein associated with desmosome.
• pinks11n. Flowers in the family Caryophyllaceae, sometimes called carnations.
• pinky14adj. Pinkish.
• pinna7n. The visible part of the ear in most therians that resides outside of...
• pinny10n. A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over...
• pinot7n. Any of several grape varieties grown in Europe and North America.
• pinta7n. A pint of milk.
• pinto7n. A horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.
• pinus7n. Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
• pious7adj. Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
• piped10adj. Shaped like a pipe; tubular.
• piper9n. A musician who plays a pipe.
• pipes9n. A single pipe organ.
• pipit9n. Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus...
• pippy14adj. Full of pips or seeds.
• pique16v. To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to...
• pirog8n. A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in...
• pirot7n. A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the...
• pisco9n. A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing...
• pista7n. Pistachio.
• piste7n. A downhill trail.
• pitch12n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap.
• pitha10n. A snack food from the Indian subcontinent resembling a pancake...
• pithy13adj. Concise and meaningful.
• piton7n. A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a...
• pitot7n. A pitot head or pitot tube.
• pitta7n. Any passerine belonging to the taxonomic family Pittidae.
• pitty10n. A pit bull terrier.
• pivot10n. A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or...
• pixel14n. One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a...
• pixie14n. A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
• pizer16n. A (front) porch (on a house).
• pizza25n. A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped...
• pizzo25n. A glass pipe with a spherical bulb for freebasing drugs such as...
• plaid8n. A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered...
• plain7adj. Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
• plait7n. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
• plexi14n. A Plexiglas guitar.
• plica9n. A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
• plier7n. One who plies.
• pling8n. The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
• plink11n. A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound.
• plitt7n. An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in...
• poilu7n. A French infantryman during the First World War.
• point7n. Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
• poise7n. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
• pokie11n. Synonym of poker machine, an electronic game of chance played for...
• polio7n. A person who has poliomyelitis.
• polis7n. A Greek city-state.
• porin7n. Any of a class of proteins that cross cellular membranes and act as...
• posit7n. Something that is posited; a postulate.
• potin7n. An alloy of copper, zinc, lead, and tin.
• powis10n. A black curassow (Crax alector).
• price9n. The cost required to gain possession of something.
• prick13n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
• pride8n. A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in...
• prier7n. A person who pries.
• prill7v. To flow, spurt.
• prima9adj. Most important.
• prime9adj. First in importance, degree, or rank.
• primo9n. The principal part of a duet.
• primp11v. To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
• prink11n. The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing...
• print7adj. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
• prion7n. A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible...
• prior7adj. Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
• prise7v. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
• prism9n. An object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1).
• priss7n. A prissy person.
• privy13adj. Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
• prize16n. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by...
• psion7n. The psi-meson, a sub-atomic particle.
• pubic11adj. Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the...
• pubis9n. The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the...
• pugio8n. A dagger or poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans.
• punji14n. A sharpened stick, often made of bamboo and covered in feces or other...
• pupil9n. A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.
• pyxis17n. A small box.

Q

• qibla16n. The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined...
• qilin14n. A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in...
• qipao16n. A traditional one-piece dress worn by Chinese women.
• qisas14n. Under sharia law, the principle of retaliation in kind, or retributive...
• quail14v. To waste away; to fade, to wither.
• quasi14adj. Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.
• qubit16n. A quantum bit; the basic unit of quantum information described by a...
• quick20adj. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so...
• quiet14adj. With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
• quiff20n. A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
• quill14n. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
• quilt14n. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together...
• quina14n. Quinine.
• quine14n. A program that produces its own source code as output.
• quink18n. A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.
• quint14n. An interval of one fifth.
• quipu16n. A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted...
• quire14n. One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or...
• quirk18n. An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about...
• quirt14n. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
• quist14n. The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
• quite14adv. With verbs, especially past participles.
• quits14adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
• quoin14n. Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more...
• quoit14n. A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.

R

• rabbi9n. A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making...
• rabid8adj. Affected with rabies.
• rabri7n. Synonym of rabadi (“Indian dessert”).
• radio6n. The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other...
• radix13n. A root.
• rains5n. A rainy season; monsoon.
• rainy8adj. Pouring with rain; wet; showery.
• raion5n. An administrative unit of some Eastern European and Asian states.
• raise5v. To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• raita5n. A condiment made from seasoned yogurt used as a dip or sauce in the...
• rakhi12n. An ornamental cotton wristband tied by a girl or woman on to the wrist...
• ramie7n. A tall, tropical Asian perennial herb, of species Boehmeria nivea...
• rapid8adj. Very swift or quick.
• rashi8n. A zodiac sign.
• rasic7adj. Relating to rasa.
• ratio5n. A number representing a comparison between two named things.
• ratti5n. A traditional Indian unit of measure for mass, approximately 0.1215...
• ravin8n. Property obtained or seized by force or violence; booty, plunder...
• rebid8v. To bid (command or summon) again.
• recit7n. A short story.
• refit8n. The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
• refix15v. To fix again.
• regie6n. A government monopoly, such as on tobacco, typically used to raise...
• regio6n. Any large area of a planet or moon that is strongly differentiated from...
• reify11v. To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
• reign6n. The exercise of sovereign power.
• reiki9n. A Japanese form of pseudomedicine that involves transferring chi...
• reins5n. The lower part of the back.
• reist5n. A proponent of reism.
• rejig13v. To rearrange or tweak (something), especially in order to improve it or...
• relic7n. That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining...
• remis7n. A draw.
• remit7v. To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
• remix14n. A rearrangement of an older piece of music, possibly including various...
• renin5n. A circulating enzyme released by mammalian kidneys that converts...
• repin7v. To pin again.
• resid6n. A residual solvent.
• resin5n. A viscous water-insoluble hydrocarbon exudate of certain plants, or...
• resit5v. To take an examination a second time.
• retic7n. Reticulated python.
• retie5v. To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied...
• retin5v. To coat with tin again.
• revie8v. To vie with, or rival, in return.
• rezai14n. A coverlet quilted with cotton.
• rhein8n. An anthraquinone found in rhubarb.
• rhine8n. A watercourse; a ditch for water.
• rhino8n. A rhinoceros.
• riant5adj. Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
• riata5n. A lariat or lasso.
• ribby12adj. Pertaining to or having ribs; ribbed.
• riced8adj. Made into or consisting of finely minced pieces resembling rice.
• ricer7n. A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests...
• ricey10adj. Containing rice.
• ricin7n. An extremely toxic lectin extracted from the castor bean.
• rider6n. An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped...
• ridge7n. The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the...
• ridgy10adj. Rising in a ridge or ridges; having ridges.
• ridic8adj. Ridiculous.
• rifle8n. A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is...
• right9adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one...
• rigid7adj. Stiff, rather than flexible.
• rigol6n. A ridge or channel above a porthole to redirect water flow from...
• rille5n. A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the...
• rimed8adj. Covered in rime (etymology 1) or (generally) frost.
• rimer7n. A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
• rindy9adj. Having a rind or skin.
• ringe6n. A whisk made of heather.
• rings6n. A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended...
• ringy9adj. Having a ringing or reverberating sound.
• rinse5v. To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
• ripen7v. Of grain, fruit, flowers, etc., to grow ripe; to become mature.
• ripon7n. A spur (goad for a horse etc.).
• rippy12adj. Resembling or characteristic of ripping or tearing.
• risen5adj. Having risen.
• riser5n. Someone or something which rises.
• rishi8n. A Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with...
• risky12adj. Dangerous; involving risks.
• ritsu5n. An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and...
• ritzy17adj. Elegant and luxurious.
• rival8n. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as...
• riven8adj. Torn apart.
• river8n. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying...
• rivet8n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head...
• riyal8n. The official currency of Qatar, divided into 100 dirhams.
• riyaz17n. The rigorous practice of Hindustani classical music.
• rizla14n. A rolling paper.
• rizzy26adj. Having or relating to rizz; charming, affectionate, seductive.
• robin7n. A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
• ronin5n. A masterless samurai (who often becomes a mercenary to make ends meet).
• roshi8n. An elderly and revered Buddhist monk.
• rosin5n. A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its...
• rudie6n. A juvenile delinquent.
• rukia9n. Any bird of the genus Rukia, native to Micronesia.

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