9-letter words containing f, e, r, i, c
- microserf — (jargon) Wired magazine's term for a Microsoft employee.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
- off-price — offering or dealing in goods, especially brand-name apparel, at prices lower than those at regular retail stores or discount stores.
- officered — Simple past tense and past participle of officer.
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- perciform — a perch-like fish
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- recertify — to attest as certain; give reliable information of; confirm: He certified the truth of his claim.
- recitatif — recitative2 .
- reconfine — to confine (something or someone) again
- reconfirm — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- rectified — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- rectifier — a person or thing that rectifies.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- refinance — to finance again.
- refined c — (RC) An extension of C to directly specify data access rights so that flow analysis, and hence automatic parallelisation, is more effective. Research implementations only. "Refining A Conventional Language For Race-Free Specification Of Parallel Algorithms," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1984 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.380-382.
- reinforce — to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material: to reinforce a wall.
- respecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- ricefield — a field where rice is grown
- richfield — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- scarifier — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- specifier — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- tectiform — having the shape of a roof.
- teleferic — telpher.
- vint cerf — (person) (Vinton G. Cerf) The co-inventor with Bob Kahn of the Internet and its base protocol, TCP/IP. Like Jon Postel, he was crucial in the development of many higher-level protocols, and has written several dozen RFCs since the late 1960s. Vinton Cerf is senior vice president of Internet Architecture and Technology for MCI WorldCom. His team of architects and engineers design advanced Internet frameworks for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial e-mail service to be connected to the Internet. During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and is currently chairman of the Board. Cerf is a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) and the Advisory Committee for Telecommunications (ACT) in Ireland. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People." In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet, Cerf serves as technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict," the number one television show in first-run syndication. He also made a special guest appearance in May 1998. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet. Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College and Gettysburg College.
- wreckfish — a large brown fish, Polyprion americanus, of the sea bass family, inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea and tropical Atlantic Ocean, often occurring in groups near wrecks.