9-letter words containing f, r, i, s, t
- frontwise — Toward the front; in the direction of the front; frontward.
- frostbite — injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold, sometimes progressing from initial redness and tingling to gangrene.
- frostfish — either of two North American fishes, the tomcod of the Atlantic Ocean or the round whitefish, that appear when frost sets in.
- frostline — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- fruitiest — Superlative form of fruity.
- fruitions — Plural form of fruition.
- fruitless — useless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search for the missing treasure.
- frumpiest — frumpish.
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- fruticous — (botany) fruticose.
- furiosity — Lb obsolete furiousness; fury.
- futurists — Plural form of futurist.
- gearshift — shift lever.
- gratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gratify.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- infectors — Plural form of infector.
- interfuse — to intersperse, intermingle, or permeate with something.
- iron fist — harsh rule
- isografts — Plural form of isograft.
- justifier — (chiefly, philosophy) One who, or that which, justifies (some belief or action).
- kitesurfs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kitesurf.
- kniferest — something upon which to rest a knife when it is not being used.
- metrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metrify.
- microsoft — Microsoft Corporation
- mortifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mortify.
- mystifier — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- nitrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nitrify.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- rastafari — Rastafarian (def 1).
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- reformist — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- rejustify — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- renfierst — made fierce; enraged
- restiform — (esp of bundles of nerve fibres) shaped like a cord or rope; cordlike
- retestify — to testify again
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- septiform — sevenfold
- 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
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.