8-letter words containing i, n, f, r
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- redefine — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- refinery — an establishment for refining something, as metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- refining — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- 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
- reinfect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- reinform — to inform again or anew
- reinfund — to pour in again, to flow in again
- reinfuse — to infuse again
- reniform — kidney-shaped: a reniform leaf; hematite in reniform masses.
- renotify — to notify again
- resinify — to convert into a resin.
- rifampin — a semisynthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 4 3 H 5 8 N 4 O 1 2 , used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, asymptomatic carriers of meningococcal disease, and leprosy.
- riffling — a rapid, as in a stream.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- ring off — to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice.
- roofline — the outline of a rooftop.
- ruffling — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- 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.
- scarfpin — tiepin.
- sign for — acknowledge receipt
- skurfing — skateboarding.
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- tenerife — the largest of the Canary Islands, off the NW Coast of Africa. 794 sq. mi. (2055 sq. km). . Capital: Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- transfix — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- trendify — to render fashionable; remodel in line with current trends
- trifling — of very little importance; trivial; insignificant: a trifling matter.
- unafraid — feeling fear; filled with apprehension: afraid to go.
- unciform — hook-shaped.
- unfairer — more unfair
- unfairly — not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics: an unfair law; an unfair wage policy.
- unforbid — unforbidden
- unfriend — to remove (a person) from one's list of friends, or contacts, on a social media website.
- unfringe — an outer edge; margin; periphery: on the fringe of the art world.
- unifilar — having or involving only one thread, wire, or the like.
- unrifled — (of a firearm or its bore) not rifled; smoothbore
- unthrift — an unthrifty person; a spendthrift
- urnfield — a Bronze Age cemetery in which the ashes of the dead were buried in urns.
- ut infra — as below
- vinifera — of, relating to, or derived from a European grape, Vitis vinifera, widely cultivated for making wine and raisins and for table use.
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- warfarin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble anticoagulant, C 19 H 16 O 4 , used chiefly as a rodenticide.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- windfarm — a large grouping of wind generators or wind plants located at a site having dependable strong winds.
- windsurf — to engage in windsurfing.