9-letter words containing f, i, r, e, a
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- paraffine — paraffin.
- pea rifle — a small rifle
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- qualifier — a person or thing that qualifies.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- 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.
- rafflesia — any stemless, leafless, parasitic plant of the genus Rafflesia, of the Malay Peninsula and Republic of Indonesia, characterized by apetalous flowers, measuring 3 in.–3 feet (8 cm–90 cm) in diameter, that exude a putrid odor: now greatly reduced in number.
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- re-affirm — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- real life — existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
- real-life — existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
- recitatif — recitative2 .
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- 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.
- refudiate — to reject as untrue or refuse to acknowledge.
- reinflame — to inflame again
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- requalify — to qualify again
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- 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
- saxifrage — any plant of the genus Saxifraga, certain species of which grow wild in the clefts of rocks, other species of which are cultivated for their flowers.
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- scarifier — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- take fire — to begin to burn