9-letter words containing f, a, i, r
- isografts — Plural form of isograft.
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- kaffraria — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- life raft — a raft, often inflatable, for use in emergencies, as when a ship must be abandoned or when a plane is downed at sea.
- life-care — designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usually in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments: a life-care facility; life-care communities.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- liverleaf — hepatica.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- magnifier — a person or thing that magnifies.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- mammifers — Plural form of mammifer.
- mammiform — having the shape of a breast
- manfriend — A male friend.
- megafirms — Plural form of megafirm.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
- mirifical — (rare) miraculous, wonderful.
- misfeasor — a person who is guilty of misfeasance.
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- nontariff — Not a tariff.
- officiary — pertaining to or derived from an office, as a title.
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- orificial — (medicine) Of or relating to the orifices of the body.
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- ossifraga — a large fulmar
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- ovaliform — Shaped like an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- paraffine — paraffin.
- paraffiny — of, relating to, or characteristic of paraffin; covered with or smelling of paraffin
- pea rifle — a small rifle
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- picofarad — one trillionth of a farad. Abbreviation: pF.
- pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- quadrifid — cleft into four parts or lobes.