9-letter words containing f, r, g
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.
- reglorify — to glorify again
- regretful — full of regret; sorrowful because of what is lost, gone, or done.
- rig floor — The rig floor is the working area on a rig.
- right off — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- 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.
- telferage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
- throngful — crowded or packed with people
- tigerfish — a large, voracious, freshwater game fish, Hydrocyenus goliath, of African rivers.
- trafalgar — Cape, a cape on the SW coast of Spain, W of Gibraltar: British naval victory over the French and Spanish fleets 1805.
- tree frog — any of various arboreal frogs, especially of the family Hylidae, usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe.
- turfgrass — grass grown for lawns, of a type that forms a dense even turf if mown and maintained
- underfong — to receive, comprehend, or trap
- unfearing — having no fear
- unfigured — not numbered
- unfraught — not fraught
- unfurling — to spread or shake out from a furled state, as a sail or a flag; unfold.
- unguiform — shaped like a nail or claw
- unroofing — to take off the roof or covering of.
- verifying — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- vermifuge — serving to expel worms or other animal parasites from the intestines, as a medicine.
- wayfaring — (of a person) traveling on foot.
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.
- wood frog — a typically light-brown frog, Rana sylvatica, inhabiting moist woodlands of eastern North America, having a dark, masklike marking on the head.
- xenograft — a graft obtained from a member of one species and transplanted to a member of another species.