7-letter words containing f, e, r, i
- grifted — Simple past tense and past participle of grift.
- grifter — a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., especially a gambling attraction.
- gunfire — the firing of a gun or guns.
- heftier — Comparative form of hefty.
- heifers — Plural form of heifer.
- imperf. — imperfect
- inferno — hell; the infernal regions.
- infero- — below and
- inforce — Obsolete spelling of enforce.
- infuser — to introduce, as if by pouring; cause to penetrate; instill (usually followed by into): The energetic new principal infused new life into the school.
- kieffer — a large, brownish-red, hybrid variety of pear.
- knifers — Plural form of knifer.
- leafier — Comparative form of leafy.
- leofric — died 1057, earl of Mercia c1030–57 (husband of Lady Godiva).
- lifters — Plural form of lifter.
- loftier — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- lucifer — a proud, rebellious archangel, identified with Satan, who fell from heaven.
- manifer — a gauntlet for protecting the left hand when holding the reins of a horse.
- mercify — (obsolete, rare, transitive) To have mercy on; to pity. (16th-19th c.).
- metrify — to put into meter; compose in verse.
- misfare — to get on or fare badly
- misfire — (of a rifle or gun or of a bullet or shell) to fail to fire or explode.
- nerfing — Present participle of nerf.
- officer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- on fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- orifice — an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.
- outfire — (Sussex) A visit by one bonfire society to join in with the celebrations of another.
- overfit — too fit
- perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
- perfing — the practice of taking early retirement, with financial compensation, from the police force
- petrify — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- piefort — piedfort.
- piffero — a type of small rustic oboe from Italy
- piffler — someone who talks nonsense
- pilfery — theft
- pinfire — of or relating to a cartridge fitted with a pin that, when struck by the hammer of the firearm, causes the cartridge to explode.
- porifer — a member of the phylum Porifera
- prefile — relating to an investigation conducted before filing a charge
- prefire — to fire before glazing
- prelife — a life lived before one's life on earth
- presift — to sift something preliminarily
- profile — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- raffiné — refined; cultivated
- rc file — /R C fi:l/ [Unix: from the startup script "/etc/rc", but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to "run commands"] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also dot file, profile (sense 1).
- re-gift — an unwanted gift that is given away.
- reaffix — to affix (something) again
- rectify — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- red fir — any of several firs, as Abies magnifica, of the western U.S., having a reddish bark.
- redfish — Also called ocean perch, rosefish. a North Atlantic rockfish, Sebastes marinus, used for food.
- reefing — a part of a sail that is rolled and tied down to reduce the area exposed to the wind.