9-letter words containing g, r, i, f
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- profiling — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiting — 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.
- rain frog — a tree frog, especially a spring peeper.
- referring — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- refinding — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- reflowing — an occurrence of flowing again
- reforming — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- reglorify — to glorify again
- rig floor — The rig floor is the working area on a rig.
- right off — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- safariing — a journey or expedition, for hunting, exploration, or investigation, especially in eastern Africa.
- sangfroid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- saxifrage — any plant of the genus Saxifraga, certain species of which grow wild in the clefts of rocks, other species of which are cultivated for their flowers.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- siegfried — (in the Nibelungenlied) the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde and the husband of Kriemhild. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of the Nibelungs, wins Brünnhilde for Gunther, and is finally killed by Hagen at the behest of Brünnhilde, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to the Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga. Compare Brünnhilde.
- signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
- sigrdrifa — a Valkyrie who, for disobedience to Odin, sleeps within a circle of fire until awakened by Sigurd.
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- tigerfish — a large, voracious, freshwater game fish, Hydrocyenus goliath, of African rivers.
- unfearing — having no fear
- unfigured — not numbered
- unfurling — to spread or shake out from a furled state, as a sail or a flag; unfold.
- unguiform — shaped like a nail or claw
- unroofing — to take off the roof or covering of.
- verifying — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- vermifuge — serving to expel worms or other animal parasites from the intestines, as a medicine.
- wayfaring — (of a person) traveling on foot.