9-letter words containing a, o, r, i
- fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fortran i — An early version of Fortran designed by John Backus at IBM for the IBM 704. The design was begun in 1954 and a compiler released in April 1957.
- fossarian — fossor.
- fossorial — digging or burrowing.
- fractions — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- framboise — raspberry.
- francisco — a male given name, Spanish form of Francis.
- francolin — any of numerous Eurasian and African partridges of the genus Francolinus, having sharply spurred legs.
- franconia — a medieval duchy in Germany, largely in the valley of the Main River.
- frication — an audible, constrained rush of air accompanying and characteristic of fricatives.
- frigatoon — a Venetian sailing ship with a square stern
- froissart — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1333?–c1400, French chronicler.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- furacious — given to stealing; thievish
- furcation — forked; branching.
- gain over — persuade
- gainsboro — A light bluish grey colour.
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garrisons — Plural form of garrison.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- georgiana — a female given name.
- georgical — Georgic; relating to rural affairs.
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- giraudoux — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1944, French novelist, playwright, and diplomat.
- gittarone — an acoustic bass guitar
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorize — to make glamorous.
- glamourie — Alternative spelling of glamoury.
- good hair — hair showing evidence of some European strain in a person's blood
- gorgonian — any of numerous alcyonarian corals of the order Gorgonacea, having a usually branching, horny or calcareous skeleton.
- goslarite — hydrated zinc sulphate
- gradation — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandioso — grand and imposing.
- graniform — Formed from or like corn.
- granitoid — resembling or having the texture of granite.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
- gravitino — the hypothetical fermionic partner of the graviton, predicted by the supergravity extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
- gravitons — Plural form of graviton.
- gray iron — pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.
- gregorian — of or relating to any of the popes named Gregory, especially Gregory I or Gregory XIII.