10-letter words containing a, f, i, r, e
- quasi-free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
- rained off — cancelled or postponed on account of rain
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rapid-fire — characterized by, delivered, or occurring in rapid succession: rapid-fire questions; rapid-fire events.
- reaffirmed — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
- refit yard — a yard where ships are made ready for use again by repairing, re-equipping, or resupplying
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractive — of or relating to refraction.
- refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- refutative — tending to refute; pertaining to refutation: refutative evidence.
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- rivercraft — a small vessel which is used to travel on rivers
- rue family — the plant family Rutaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple or compound aromatic leaves, fragrant flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the citruses, the gas plant, Hercules'-club, and rue.
- sacrificed — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- sacrificer — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sans serif — a style of monotonal type without serifs.
- sans-serif — a style of monotonal type without serifs.
- saponifier — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- satisfiers — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- seferiades — Giorgos Stylianou [yawr-gaws stee-lyah-noo] /ˈyɔr gɔs ˌsti lyɑˈnu/ (Show IPA), (Giorgos Seferis) 1900–71, Greek poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1963.
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- staffrider — a person who illegally rides on the outside of a suburban train
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- tax relief — finance: reduction
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- time draft — a draft payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
- time frame — a period of time during which something has taken or will take place: We're talking about a time frame of five minutes for the president's visit.
- trade fair — exhibition by a particular industry
- trafficked — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- trafficker — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.