9-letter words containing f, r, o
- confrerie — a brotherhood
- confronte — (of two animals) face to face
- confronts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confront.
- coniferin — a grayish-white, water-soluble powder, C 16 H 22 O 8 ⋅2H 2 O, obtained from the cambium of coniferous trees and from asparagus: used chiefly in the manufacture of vanillin.
- cord foot — a quantity of wood 4 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 1 foot long (1.2 m × 1.2 m × 0.3 meters), or 16 cu. ft. (0.5 cu. m).
- cordiform — heart-shaped
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- corn beef — corned beef.
- cornfield — A cornfield is a field in which corn is being grown.
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornflour — Cornflour is a fine white powder made from maize and is used to make sauces thicker.
- cornforth — Sir John Warcup. 1917–2014, Australian chemist, who shared the 1975 Nobel prize for chemistry with Vladimir Prelog for their work on stereochemistry
- cornified — Converted into horn; horny.
- corniform — shaped like a horn
- corporify — to embody
- count for — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- crack off — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- cream off — To cream off part of a group of people means to take them away and treat them in a special way, because they are better than the others.
- crockford — short for Crockford's Clerical Directory, the standard directory of living Anglican clergy
- cross fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is reddish brown with a dark stripe down the back and another over the shoulders.
- cross off — If you cross off words on a list, you decide that they no longer belong on the list, and often you draw a line through them to indicate this.
- crossfall — the camber of a road
- crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- crossfish — a starfish
- crossfoot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crossruff — the alternate trumping of each other's leads by two partners, or by declarer and dummy
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crowfoots — Plural form of crowfoot.
- cruciform — A cruciform building or object is shaped like a cross.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- curb roof — a roof having two or more slopes on each side of the ridge
- curviform — having a curved shape
- cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- dampproof — resistant to dampness or the effects of dampness.
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- de forest — Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.