5-Letter Words Containing: IR__

• a title of respect placed before the surname of an official, scholar, or other distinguished man.

• (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

• dark or gloomy

• The pesticide and fire retardant perchloropentacyclodecane, which is a persistent organic pollutant.

• a Scottish church

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

• whip with a birch twig

• a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

• English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)