10-letter words containing g, r, i, f
- microfungi — Plural form of microfungus.
- minifridge — A small refrigerator, such as is often found in hotel or dormitory rooms.
- mortifying — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- netsurfing — Netsurfing is the activity of looking at different sites on the Internet, especially when you are not looking for anything in particular.
- nitrifying — Describing certain bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrite and nitrate in the soil.
- offshoring — the practice of moving employees or certain business activities to foreign countries as a way to lower costs, avoid taxes, etc.: the offshoring of software jobs to China.
- offsprings — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- oregon fir — Douglas fir.
- overflight — an air flight that passes over a specific area, country, or territory: Overflights of foreign aircraft are closely monitored.
- performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- petrifying — stunning or dazing with horror, fear, etc
- pig farmer — sb who raises pigs for meat
- preferring — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
- prizefight — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- proffering — to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- red-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.
- redefining — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- reflecting — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refreshing — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- refringent — refracting; refractive.
- refuelling — to supply again with fuel: to refuel an airplane.
- refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- ridgefield — a town in SW Connecticut.
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- ring-fence — assign to sth
- rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
- roof light — a window built into a roof to admit light and ventilation
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- scarf-ring — a ring which holds a scarf in place
- scarifying — critical
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- skin graft — skin used for transplanting in skin grafting.
- skysurfing — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- smyrna fig — a variety of the common fig, Ficus carica, that requires caprification in order to produce fruit.
- spongiform — resembling a sponge, as in appearance or structure.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- spring for — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.