9-letter words containing f, r, i, n
- on relief — alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc.
- open fire — start shooting
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- paraffine — paraffin.
- paraffiny — of, relating to, or characteristic of paraffin; covered with or smelling of paraffin
- penniform — shaped like a feather; (esp of muscles) having fibres attached to the tendon in a feather-like fashion
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- portofino — a village in NW Italy, SE of Genoa: tourist resort.
- predefine — to define in advance
- preinform — to supply with information beforehand: He preinformed the newspapers of his decision.
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- profiling — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiting — 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.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- 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.
- rain frog — a tree frog, especially a spring peeper.
- rainproof — impervious to rain; keeping out or unaffected by rain: a rainproof cover; a rainproof coat.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- reconfine — to confine (something or someone) again
- reconfirm — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- redefined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- referring — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- refinance — to finance again.
- refinding — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- refine on — to improve, as by adding refinements
- refined c — (RC) An extension of C to directly specify data access rights so that flow analysis, and hence automatic parallelisation, is more effective. Research implementations only. "Refining A Conventional Language For Race-Free Specification Of Parallel Algorithms," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1984 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.380-382.
- refinedly — in a refined manner
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- reflexion — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- reflowing — an occurrence of flowing again
- reforming — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- refrained — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refurnish — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- reinflame — to inflame again
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- reinforce — to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material: to reinforce a wall.
- remindful — reviving memory of something; reminiscent.
- renfierst — made fierce; enraged
- renifleur — a person who is sexually aroused or gratified by odors.
- reznikoff — Charles, 1894–1976, U.S. poet.