9-letter words containing f, a, n, r
- informant — a person who informs or gives information; informer.
- infra dig — beneath one's dignity.
- infra-red — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infractor — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infradian — (of a rhythm or cycle ) having a period of recurrence longer than a day; occurring less than once a day.
- infuriate — to make furious; enrage.
- infusoria — Irregular plural form of infusorium.
- ingrafted — engraft.
- interface — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interleaf — an additional leaf, usually blank, inserted between or bound with the regular printed leaves of a book, as to separate chapters or provide room for a reader's notes.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- lace-fern — a small, tufted fern, Cheilanthes gracillima, having dark-brown stalks and fronds about 4 inches (10.2 cm) long.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- landforms — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- 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.
- magnifier — a person or thing that magnifies.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- manfriend — A male friend.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
- mooncraft — a lunar module
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- nonfactor — Something which is not a factor, or does not play a significant role.
- nonfarmer — a person who is not a farmer
- nonformal — Not formal.
- nontariff — Not a tariff.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- off-brand — not having a recognized or popular brand or name: an off-brand TV set.
- overfrank — too frank
- 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
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perforant — perforating; esp (of blood vessels) perforating other anatomical structures
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- 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.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- raffinate — the part of a liquid, especially an oil, remaining after its more soluble components have been extracted by a solvent.
- 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.
- rain frog — a tree frog, especially a spring peeper.
- rainproof — impervious to rain; keeping out or unaffected by rain: a rainproof cover; a rainproof coat.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.