9-letter words containing r, a, f, i, n
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- raffinate — the part of a liquid, especially an oil, remaining after its more soluble components have been extracted by a solvent.
- 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.
- 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.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- refinance — to finance again.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- refrained — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- reinflame — to inflame again
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- rifamycin — an antibiotic which can be synthesized artificially or naturally and is used in the treatment of infections such as tuberculosis and leprosy
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- safariing — a journey or expedition, for hunting, exploration, or investigation, especially in eastern Africa.
- safranine — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- 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.
- scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
- unfairest — most unfair
- unfearing — having no fear
- wayfaring — (of a person) traveling on foot.
- wind farm — a large grouping of wind generators or wind plants located at a site having dependable strong winds.