9-letter words containing a, f, o, r, e
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- leaf roll — a viral disease of plants, especially potatoes, characterized by upward rolling of the leaflets, chlorosis, stunting, and necrosis of the phloem.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- megaflora — plants large enough to be seen by the naked eye
- misfeasor — a person who is guilty of misfeasance.
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- nonfarmer — a person who is not a farmer
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- off break — a bowled ball that spins from off to leg on pitching
- offerable — able to be offered
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- overdraft — an act or instance of overdrawing a checking account.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overfrank — too frank
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pay offer — an offer of a certain amount of wages or salary
- perfboard — hardboard with perforations into which pegs or hooks can be inserted for hanging or displaying objects.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perforant — perforating; esp (of blood vessels) perforating other anatomical structures
- perforate — to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like.
- pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- prefatory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
- preformat — to format in advance
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- proofread — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- reformado — (formerly) a disgraced officer who is deprived of his command but still has the same rank and sometimes is still paid
- reformate — the product of the reforming process.
- reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- refractor — a person or thing that refracts.
- rock face — a perpendicular side of a rock
- rock-face — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- scare off — frighten away
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.