9-letter words containing f, a, n, r
- referenda — the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body, head of state, etc., to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. Compare initiative (def 4a).
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- refinance — to finance again.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- refrained — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- reinflame — to inflame again
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- rifamycin — an antibiotic which can be synthesized artificially or naturally and is used in the treatment of infections such as tuberculosis and leprosy
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- run after — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- runecraft — understanding of and skill working with runes
- safariing — a journey or expedition, for hunting, exploration, or investigation, especially in eastern Africa.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- safranine — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- sangfroid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- tank farm — an area or expanse of land used for holding oil-storage tanks.
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- trans fat — trans-fatty acid.
- trans-fat — trans-fatty acid.
- transfect — to cause transfection in (a cell).
- transform — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfuse — to transfer or pass from one to another; transmit; instill: to transfuse a love of literature to one's students.
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
- uncareful — not careful; not caring or vigilant; careless
- underleaf — (in liverworts) any of the leaves forming a row on the underside of the stem: usually smaller than the two rows of lateral leaves and sometimes absent
- undrafted — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- unfairest — most unfair
- unfavored — regarded or treated with preference or partiality: Her beauty made her the favored child.
- unfearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- unfearing — having no fear
- unfranked — (of a letter, mail, etc) not franked
- unfraught — not fraught
- unfreeman — a person who is not a freeman
- unharmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- unprofane — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- unraffled — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- wall fern — the polypody, especially Polypodium vulgare or P. virginianum.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.