9-letter words containing f, r, g, s
- gruffness — low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- infringes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infringe.
- isografts — Plural form of isograft.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- megafirms — Plural form of megafirm.
- misfiring — Present participle of misfire.
- offerings — Plural form of offering.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- ossifraga — a large fulmar
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- pig's fry — the heart, liver, lights, and sweetbreads of a pig cooked, esp fried, together
- safariing — a journey or expedition, for hunting, exploration, or investigation, especially in eastern Africa.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- sangfroid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- 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.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
- shrug off — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- siegfried — (in the Nibelungenlied) the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde and the husband of Kriemhild. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of the Nibelungs, wins Brünnhilde for Gunther, and is finally killed by Hagen at the behest of Brünnhilde, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to the Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga. Compare Brünnhilde.
- signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
- sigrdrifa — a Valkyrie who, for disobedience to Odin, sleeps within a circle of fire until awakened by Sigurd.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- tigerfish — a large, voracious, freshwater game fish, Hydrocyenus goliath, of African rivers.
- turfgrass — grass grown for lawns, of a type that forms a dense even turf if mown and maintained
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.