9-letter words containing n, i, f, t
- nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
- nightfire — a fire burned at night e.g. a campfire
- nightlife — the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion, as at a nightclub, theater, or the like.
- nitrified — Simple past tense and past participle of nitrify.
- nitrifier — a person or thing that nitrifies.
- nitrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nitrify.
- nonfinite — Infinite.
- nonprofit — not established for the purpose of making a profit; not entered into for money: a nonprofit institution.
- nontariff — Not a tariff.
- notifying — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- officiant — a person who officiates at a religious service or ceremony.
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- oftentime — (rare) oftentimes.
- olfaction — the act of smelling.
- outflying — Present participle of outfly.
- outfoxing — Present participle of outfox.
- pinchfist — a miser
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- point off — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- pontifice — a priest in ancient Rome
- portofino — a village in NW Italy, SE of Genoa: tourist resort.
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- 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.
- raffinate — the part of a liquid, especially an oil, remaining after its more soluble components have been extracted by a solvent.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- renfierst — made fierce; enraged
- rift zone — a system of related, narrow structural depressions between parallel faults.
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- siftingly — by a sifting process
- sinfjotli — the son of Signy by her brother Sigmund.
- skinflint — a mean, niggardly person; miser.
- sniff out — detect
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- soft sign — the Cyrillic letter (ь) as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is palatalized, or to represent (y) between a palatalized consonant and a vowel. See also jer (def 1).
- spindrift — spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea.
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- stiffened — to make stiff.
- stiffener — a person or thing that stiffens.
- stiffness — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.