9-letter words containing e, n, f, r
- fasteners — Plural form of fastener.
- fathering — a male parent.
- fatteners — Plural form of fattener.
- favorance — a liking or preference: My family always had a favorance for farming.
- featuring — a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
- feedgrain — any cereal grain used as a feed for livestock, poultry, or other animals.
- feininger — Andreas (Bernhard Lyonel) [an-drey-uh s,, ahn-] /ænˈdreɪ əs,, ɑn-/ (Show IPA), 1906–1999, U.S. photographer, born in France.
- fencerows — Plural form of fencerow.
- fenestral — (archaeology) A casement or window sash closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.
- fenugreek — a plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, of the legume family, indigenous to western Asia, but extensively cultivated elsewhere, chiefly for forage and for its mucilaginous seeds, which are used in medicine.
- ferdinand — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
- fermanagh — a county in SW Northern Ireland. 653 sq. mi. (1691 sq. km). County seat: Enniskillen.
- fermented — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- fermenter — A container in which fermentation takes place.
- fermentor — The vessel in which fermentation takes place.
- fermionic — (physics) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.
- fern seed — the spores of ferns, formerly supposed to have the power to make persons invisible.
- fernandel — real name Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin. 1903–71, French comic film actor
- fernandez — Juan [hwahn,, wahn;; Spanish hwahn] /ʰwɑn,, wɑn;; Spanish ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), 1536?–1602? Spanish navigator: explorer in South America and the Pacific.
- fernbrake — a thicket or dense growth of ferns.
- fernticle — (obsolete, dialect, Scotland) A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.
- ferreting — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- ferrocene — Also called dicyclopentadienyliron. an orange, crystalline, water-insoluble coordination compound, (C 5 H 5) 2 Fe, having a camphorlike odor: used chiefly as an antiknock agent for gasoline and as a catalyst. Compare metallocene.
- ferruling — a ring or cap, usually of metal, put around the end of a post, cane, or the like, to prevent splitting.
- fervently — having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent: a fervent admirer; a fervent plea.
- festering — Present participle of fester.
- fettering — a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
- fiber pen — felt-tip pen.
- fibroline — a yarn made from waste products at cotton factories
- fieriness — The quality of being fiery.
- fierstein — Harvey, born 1954, U.S. playwright.
- fifteener — a fifteen-syllable line of poetry
- figurante — a ballerina who does not perform solo.
- figure in — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- figure on — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- figurines — Plural form of figurine.
- filtering — Present participle of filter.
- finalizer — (computing) In some programming languages, a function that runs when an object is garbage collected, similar to a destructor.
- financier — a person skilled or engaged in managing large financial operations, whether public or corporate.
- fine arts — a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture.
- fine-draw — Sewing. to sew together so finely that the joining is not noticeable.
- finedrawn — Drawn out with too much subtlety; overnice.
- fingering — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- fingertip — the tip or end of a finger.
- finishers — Plural form of finisher.
- finistere — a department in W France. 2714 sq. mi. (7030 sq. km). Capital: Quimper.
- finlander — an inhabitant of Finland, especially a native who customarily speaks Swedish.
- finletter — Thomas Knight, 1893–1980, U.S. lawyer and diplomat.
- fire line — firebreak.
- fire pink — a plant, Silene virginica, of the pink family, having loose clusters of brilliant scarlet flowers.