10-letter words containing i, r, e, f
- pre-inform — to supply with information beforehand: He preinformed the newspapers of his decision.
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- predefined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- preferring — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- prefinance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- prefixture — something used or added as a prefix
- prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- prespecify — to specify in advance
- prettified — made pretty
- pridefully — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- priestfish — blue rockfish.
- princified — like a prince
- 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.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- proffering — to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
- proficient — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — 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.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- proteiform — changeable in form; multiform
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- quantifier — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quasi-free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- queer fish — strange person
- quick fire — rapid continuous gunfire, esp at a moving target
- quick-fire — firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.
- quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
- rained off — cancelled or postponed on account of rain
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rapid-fire — characterized by, delivered, or occurring in rapid succession: rapid-fire questions; rapid-fire events.
- reaffirmed — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- 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.”.
- redshifted — (of radiation) having undergone a redshift.
- reef point — one of several short lengths of line stitched through a sail for tying a reef
- refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
- refinement — fineness or elegance of feeling, taste, manners, language, etc.
- refinisher — a person who professionally refinishes or restores buildings or antique furniture
- refit yard — a yard where ships are made ready for use again by repairing, re-equipping, or resupplying
- reflecting — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.