9-letter words containing f, r, i, s, o
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- no-frills — providing or including basic services and necessities without any additional features or amenities: Food and beverages are not covered by the low no-frills air fare.
- odiferous — Odoriferous; smelly.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- offerings — Plural form of offering.
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- offsiders — Plural form of offsider.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- ossifraga — a large fulmar
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- oviferous — bearing eggs.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pisciform — shaped like a fish.
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- 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.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- 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.
- razorfish — any of several wrasses of the genus Hemipteronatus having a compressed, sharp-edged head, as H. novacula (pearly razorfish) of the West Indies and the Mediterranean Sea.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- reformism — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- reformist — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- restiform — (esp of bundles of nerve fibres) shaped like a cord or rope; cordlike
- rodfisher — an angler or a person who fishes with a fishing rod
- roof iris — an iris, Iris tectorum, of China and Japan, having frilled, violet or white flowers.
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- sacciform — resembling a sac
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- sangfroid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- septiform — sevenfold
- serriform — resembling the notched edge of a saw; serrated.
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- skidproof — preventing or resistant to skidding, as certain road surfaces or vehicle tires.
- slip form — a form into which concrete is poured that can be slowly moved and reused in construction, as of a pavement or a building.
- slow fire — a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- soffritto — Also called battuto. Italian Cookery. a base for stews and soups, consisting of hot oil, butter, or fat in which a chopped onion or crushed garlic clove has been browned, often with the addition of chopped parsley, celery, and carrot.
- soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- solid for — unanimously in favour of
- soporific — causing or tending to cause sleep.
- soufriere — Also, La Soufrière. a volcano in the West Indies, on St. Vincent island. 4048 feet (1234 meters).
- spiniform — like a thorn or spine
- spinproof — (of an airplane) designed so as to be highly resistant to a tailspin.
- spoil for — If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen.