9-letter words containing e, r, o, n
- fortunate — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- fortunize — to make happy or fortunate
- forty-one — a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.
- forwander — to wander far
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fostering — Encourage or promote the development of (something, typically something regarded as good).
- foundered — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- foundress — a woman who establishes something, as an institution or religious order; founder.
- foundries — Plural form of foundry.
- four-lane — (of a highway) having two lanes for traffic in each direction: a four-lane thruway.
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- fourteens — Plural form of fourteen.
- free zone — a free-port area.
- free-born — born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, or vassalage.
- freemason — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- freestone — a fruit having a stone to which the flesh does not cling, as certain peaches and plums.
- freewoman — a woman who is free or at liberty, esp one who is not a slave or serf
- frenotomy — The surgical cutting of the frenum.
- frescoing — Present participle of fresco.
- frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
- fromentin — Eugene [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1820–76, French painter, critic, and author.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- front end — 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a "back end"). 2. Software that provides an interface to another program "behind" it, which may not be as user-friendly. Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends that interfaced with mainframes.
- front-end — relating to foremost part
- frontager — an owner of property or land which immediately faces a beach or street
- frontages — Plural form of frontage.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- frontenis — a Latin American game, resembling squash, played with rackets and a hard rubber ball on a three-walled court similar to a jai alai court.
- frontiers — Plural form of frontier.
- frontless — shameless; unblushing.
- frontlets — Plural form of frontlet.
- frontline — front (def 9).
- frontpage — Alternative spelling of front page.
- frontside — Denoting a maneuver in surfing and other board sports that is done counterclockwise for a regular rider and clockwise for a goofy rider.
- frontwise — Toward the front; in the direction of the front; frontward.
- frostline — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- fullerton — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- gaberones — former name of Gaborone.
- gain over — persuade
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- generator — a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
- genocider — One who commits genocide.
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- georgiana — a female given name.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.