8-letter words containing f, r, i, s
- jeffries — James J. 1875–1953, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1899–1905.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- kitesurf — To take part in kitesurfing.
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- midriffs — Plural form of midriff.
- misfired — Simple past tense and past participle of misfire.
- misfires — Plural form of misfire.
- misframe — to frame wrongly
- misgraff — badly matched
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- misinfer — to infer wrongly
- misrefer — to refer to (something) wrongly
- officers — Plural form of officer.
- offsider — an assistant or helper.
- orifices — an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.
- outfires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outfire.
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- pisiform — having the shape of a pea; pea-shaped.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- prefixes — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- redshift — 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.
- reeffish — any of several damselfishes, as Chromis insolatus, that live among reefs.
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reinfuse — to infuse again
- resinify — to convert into a resin.
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- riftless — without rift
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- rosefish — redfish (def 1).
- rufisque — a city in W Senegal, E of Dakar.
- safarist — a person on safari
- safranin — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- scarfing — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scarfish — a fish in the family Scaridae
- scarfpin — tiepin.
- sea fire — a bioluminescent glow produced by phosphorescent marine organisms.
- seriffed — (of a letter or typeface) having serifs
- setiform — bristle-shaped; setaceous.
- sherriff — Robert Cedric, 1896–1975, English playwright and novelist.
- siffleur — a male professional whistler
- sign for — acknowledge receipt
- skurfing — skateboarding.
- slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable