9-letter words containing f, i, r, e
- outfitter — an assemblage of articles that equip a person for a particular task, role, trade, etc.: an explorer's outfit.
- overbrief — too brief
- oviferous — bearing eggs.
- 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.
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- penniform — shaped like a feather; (esp of muscles) having fibres attached to the tendon in a feather-like fashion
- perciform — a perch-like fish
- perfervid — very fervent; extremely ardent; impassioned: perfervid patriotism.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petrified — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- 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.
- predefine — to define in advance
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prefigure — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- prefilled — filled in advance
- prefilter — any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- preinform — to supply with information beforehand: He preinformed the newspapers of his decision.
- premodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- press fit — a type of fit for mating parts, usually tighter than a sliding fit, used when the parts do not have to move relative to each other
- pretypify — to foreshadow or prefigure the type of: The father's personality pretypified his son's.
- prix fixe — a fixed price charged for any meal chosen from the variety listed on the menu.
- profiteer — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.
- qualifier — a person or thing that qualifies.
- quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
- quiverful — The amount held by a quiver.
- 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.
- re-verify — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.