9-letter words containing n, a, f, o
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perforant — perforating; esp (of blood vessels) perforating other anatomical structures
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- puftaloon — a fried scone
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- rain frog — a tree frog, especially a spring peeper.
- rainproof — impervious to rain; keeping out or unaffected by rain: a rainproof cover; a rainproof coat.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- sangfroid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- soft loan — A soft loan is a loan with a very low interest rate. Soft loans are usually made to developing countries or to businesses in developing countries.
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stand-off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stoneface — living stones.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
- tone-deaf — unable to distinguish differences in pitch in musical sounds when producing or hearing them.
- transform — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- unfavored — regarded or treated with preference or partiality: Her beauty made her the favored child.
- unprofane — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- xenograft — a graft obtained from a member of one species and transplanted to a member of another species.