9-letter words containing f, a, n
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- 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
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
- plan file — (operating system) On Unix systems that support finger, the ".plan" file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near-future plans, but has been turned almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a sig block). See also Hacking X for Y. A later innovation in plan files was the introduction of "scrolling plan files" which are one-dimensional animations made using only the printable ASCII character set, carriage return and line feed, avoiding terminal specific escape sequences, since the finger command will (for security reasons; see letterbomb) not pass the escape character. Scrolling .plan files have become art forms in miniature, and some sites have started competitions to find who can create the longest running, funniest, and most original animations. A compiler (ASP) is available on Usenet for producing them. Typical animation components include: See also twirling baton.
- 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.
- puftaloon — a fried scone
- 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.
- 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.
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sand flea — beach flea.
- 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.
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- snailfish — any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
- snake fly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- snakefish — lizardfish.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed