10-letter words containing r, a, i, f
- 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.
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- radiciform — resembling a root
- raduliform — rasp-like
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- rafsanjani — Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi, born 1935, president of Iran 1989–97.
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- 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.
- ras tafari — (Ras Tafari) 1891–1975, emperor of Ethiopia 1930–74: in exile 1936–41.
- 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.
- refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
- refit yard — a yard where ships are made ready for use again by repairing, re-equipping, or resupplying
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractive — of or relating to refraction.
- refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- refutative — tending to refute; pertaining to refutation: refutative evidence.
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- rifampicin — a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis, meningitis, and leprosy
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- rivercraft — a small vessel which is used to travel on rivers
- rolf kraki — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and in accounts by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus: involved in great battles with his stepfather, Adils of Sweden.
- royal fizz — a beverage consisting of gin, lemon juice, sugar, and an egg.
- rue family — the plant family Rutaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple or compound aromatic leaves, fragrant flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the citruses, the gas plant, Hercules'-club, and rue.
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- ruffianism — conduct befitting a ruffian.
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- saccharify — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- sacrificed — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- sacrificer — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- safari hat — brimmed hat worn on wildlife tours
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- samariform — having the form of a samara.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.