9-letter words containing r, a, t, i, f
- gratified — Obsolete. to reward; remunerate.
- gratifier — Someone who gratifies.
- gratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gratify.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- infanteer — a solider belonging to the infantry
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- informant — a person who informs or gives information; informer.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infractor — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infuriate — to make furious; enrage.
- ingrafted — engraft.
- interface — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interleaf — an additional leaf, usually blank, inserted between or bound with the regular printed leaves of a book, as to separate chapters or provide room for a reader's notes.
- isografts — Plural form of isograft.
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- life raft — a raft, often inflatable, for use in emergencies, as when a ship must be abandoned or when a plane is downed at sea.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
- nontariff — Not a tariff.
- 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.
- 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.
- rastafari — Rastafarian (def 1).
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- recitatif — recitative2 .
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- refudiate — to reject as untrue or refuse to acknowledge.
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- stairfoot — the area at the foot of a flight of stairs
- stairlift — A stairlift is a device that is fitted to a staircase in a house in order to allow an elderly or sick person to go upstairs.
- stardrift — the very small continuous change in the direction of movement which is shared by the stars within a particular cluster
- stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
- stiff-arm — straight-arm.
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- take fire — to begin to burn
- tauriform — shaped like a bull or the head or horns of a bull.
- taxi fare — the money a customer pays for a journey in a taxi
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- timeframe — the period of time within which certain events are scheduled to occur
- trafficky — (of a street, area, town, etc) busy with motor vehicles
- trail off — diminish
- trifacial — trigeminal.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate