9-letter words containing f, e, d, r, a
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- hard fern — a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headframe — a structure supporting the hoisting sheaves at the top of a mine shaft.
- headscarf — A square of fabric worn as a covering for the head, often folded into a triangle and knotted under the chin.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- 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.).
- ingrafted — engraft.
- karlfeldt — Erik Axel [ey-rik ahk-suh l] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lagerfeld — Karl (Otto). born 1938, German fashion designer working mainly in Paris
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- lead-free — unleaded.
- leaf lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leaf-lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- manfriend — A male friend.
- megafarad — a unit of electric capacitance equal to one million farads
- overdraft — an act or instance of overdrawing a checking account.
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- perfboard — hardboard with perforations into which pegs or hooks can be inserted for hanging or displaying objects.
- prefabbed — prefabricated.
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- proofread — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- red dwarf — any of the faint reddish stars having diameters about half that of the sun and low surface temperatures, about 2000–3000 K; a main sequence star of spectral type M.
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- red-faced — having a red face.
- redecraft — logic
- 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).
- reformado — (formerly) a disgraced officer who is deprived of his command but still has the same rank and sometimes is still paid
- reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- refracted — to subject to refraction.
- refrained — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refudiate — to reject as untrue or refuse to acknowledge.
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.
- rewardful — offering reward; rewarding
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- trade off — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade-off — the exchange of one thing for another of more or less equal value, especially to effect a compromise.