Iris is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IRIS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give the form of a rainbow to
• (of an aperture, typically that of a lens) open or close in the manner of an iris or iris diaphragm.
• display iridescence
NOUN:
• a part of the eye
• the goddess of the rainbow, who acted as a messenger of the gods.
• The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.
• The rainbow.
• An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
• The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.
• A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.
• See Fleur-de-lis, 2.
• plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
• muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye
• diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening
• part of the eye

Words related to IRIS

irides7 irised7 irises6 irising8

Words that contain IRIS

siris5 irised7 irises6 fairish13 irisate7 irising8 kokiris15 lairise7 nigiris8 noirish10 pohiris12 puriris9 daquiris18 fakirism17 irisated9 irisates8 iriscope12 lairised9 lairises8 powhiris16 saimiris10 satirise8 satirist8 squirish20 tawhiris14 daiquiris19 diapirism14 fairishly18 fakirisms18 hetairism14 hetairist12 irisating10 irisation9 iriscopes13 lairising10 manuhiris14 memoirism15 memoirist13 multirisk15 quirister18 satirised10 satiriser9 satirises9 satirists9 spagirist12 vampirise16 vampirish19 vampirism18 diapirisms15 hetairisms15 hetairists13 irisations10 memoirisms16 memoirists14 quiristers19 satirisers10 satirising11 spagirists13 vampirised18 vampirises17 vampirisms19 hetairismic18 hetairistic16 pakirikiris21 pleinairism15 pleinairist13 satirisable13 vampirising19 kefalotiris18 pleinairisms16 pleinairists14 satirisation12 sphairistike21 doctrinairism18 satirisations13 sphairistikes22 doctrinairisms19

How to use IRIS in a sentence

• There were saucers of white violets, and vases of iris and Washington lilies in Mrs.
• Why, what will it matter? Have I not lost all, except Iris? One must not be selfish.
• At the same time, Iris was quite free to manage her own affairs.
• Certainly this young schoolmaster did not know Iris, nor did he desire to discover what she was like, being wholly occupied with the study of himself.
• He came every day to the studio with Iris when she sat for her portrait.
• He was accompanied by Iris, by Lala Roy, and by Mr.
• Meanwhile the swift-footed Iris hastened down from heaven to the aid of Venus, whom she conducted to where Mars sat on the left of the battlefield, watching the conflict.
• Joyfully the aged Priam received the message of Iris, and he made haste to set out for the Grecian camp.
• Iris they bade to call Eilithyia apart from white-armed Hera, lest even then the words of Hera might turn her from her going.
• And now from Jove, with heavy tidings charged, Wind-footed Iris to the Trojans came.
• And my garden there shall be a vineyard, bordered with iris, and among the vines shall be a garden of olives, and under the olives there shall be the corn.
• Iris was laid on a couch in the messroom, and the steward summoned Mr.
• Even Iris was tempted forth by the continued sunshine.
• Iris did not know what was said, but the queer figures repeated to Coke seemed to be satisfactory.
• Philip could not imagine that they had detected him, but he feared lest Iris, in her agitation, might have moved.
• But, excepting some fruit, Iris had the wisdom to refuse other food just then.
• Iris, amid such novel surroundings, could not distinguish one noise from another.
• San Benavides, of course, was anxious to oblige Iris in this as in every other respect.
• The day wore, the sun went down, the starlit sky made beautiful a parched earth, but never a word in privacy did Iris exchange with her husband-to-be.
• All the more if the speckled iris has a dark ring to enclose it.
• They were large and well shaped, their colour a reddish brown, and if the iris was closely examined, it appeared to be composed of a great variety of tints.
• He was leant upon one knee behind a strip of iris that bordered a forest path, when suddenly he heard the crash of glass and heard a triumphant yell from the mob.
• As her hand rested upon the gate, a guard stepped from behind a bower of iris and gently opened it for her.
• I was looking anxiously for some iris roots I planted here, close to this reservoir, and which some one has trampled upon this morning.
• When present, we love, and when absent agree, I think not of Iris, nor Iris of me.
• Iris hurried away to tell her father, the great Zeus, of her loss.
• A breeze came in softly, touching her cheek like the wing of a moth and stirring the iris in a bowl by the window.
• While they went, Hera sent to Troy Iris, her messenger, in the guise of the fairest daughter of Priam.
• A circle, an inch in diameter, made of charcoal, formed an iris to a pupil, cut round and large, through the flannel.

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