9-letter words containing f, r, i, s
- disforest — To disafforest.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.
- disfrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfrock.
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- disprofit — to (cause to) fail to profit
- distaffer — a woman, especially in a field or place usually or generally dominated by men: the first distaffer to have a seat on the stock exchange.
- diversify — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- dorsiflex — Bend (something, typically the hand or foot ) dorsally or toward its upper surface.
- draglifts — Plural form of draglift.
- driftfish — any of several butterfishes, especially of the genus Psenes, inhabiting tropical waters.
- driftless — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- driftnets — Plural form of driftnet.
- escoffier — (Georges) Auguste (oɡyst). 1846–1935, French chef at the Savoy Hotel, London (1890–99)
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.
- fabritius — Carel [kah-ruh l] /ˈkɑ rəl/ (Show IPA), 1622–54, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- facefirst — Violently forward, so as to strike something with one's face.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- fair do's — equal shares or treatment
- fair isle — an intricate multicoloured pattern knitted with Shetland wool into various garments, such as sweaters
- fair list — white list.
- fair oaks — Also called Seven Pines. a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: battle 1862.
- fairbanks — Charles Warren, 1852–1918, political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1905–09.
- fairishly — in a fairish manner
- false rib — any of the lower five ribs on either side of the body, which are not directly attached to the sternum.
- falsifier — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- familiars — Plural form of familiar.
- farseeing — having foresight; sagacious; discerning.
- farthings — Plural form of farthing.
- fashioner — a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
- favorites — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- feederism — A paraphilia in which arousal is obtained from overfeeding.
- feetfirst — with the feet foremost.
- feracious — Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful.
- ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferriages — Plural form of ferriage.
- fertilise — Biology. to render (the female gamete) capable of development by uniting it with the male gamete. to fecundate or impregnate (an animal or plant).
- festering — Present participle of fester.
- fiberglas — finespun filaments of glass made into yarn that is woven into textiles, used in woolly masses as insulation, and pressed and molded as plastic material
- fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- fibrously — In a fibrous manner.
- fieriness — The quality of being fiery.
- fierstein — Harvey, born 1954, U.S. playwright.
- fifeshire — Also called Fifeshire [fahyf-sheer, -sher] /ˈfaɪf ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in E Scotland.
- figurants — Plural form of figurant.
- figurines — Plural form of figurine.
- filagrees — Plural form of filagree.
- filatures — Plural form of filature.