10-letter words containing r, e, f, i, g
- intergraft — (of two plants or parts of a plant) to unite by grafting
- jetfighter — a fighter aircraft powered by a jet engine or engines.
- kingfisher — any of numerous fish- or insect-eating birds of the family Alcedinidae that have a large head and a long, stout bill and are usually crested and brilliantly colored.
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
- lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
- leftwinger — (Sometimes pejorative) A person who is radically liberal politically; one whose political viewpoint is leftwing.
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- long rifle — Kentucky rifle.
- magnifiers — Plural form of magnifier.
- metrifying — Present participle of metrify.
- minifridge — A small refrigerator, such as is often found in hotel or dormitory rooms.
- netsurfing — Netsurfing is the activity of looking at different sites on the Internet, especially when you are not looking for anything in particular.
- oregon fir — Douglas fir.
- overflight — an air flight that passes over a specific area, country, or territory: Overflights of foreign aircraft are closely monitored.
- performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- petrifying — stunning or dazing with horror, fear, etc
- pig farmer — sb who raises pigs for meat
- preferring — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
- prizefight — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- proffering — to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- red-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.
- redefining — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- reflecting — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refreshing — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- refringent — refracting; refractive.
- refuelling — to supply again with fuel: to refuel an airplane.
- refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- ridgefield — a town in SW Connecticut.
- 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.
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- ring-fence — assign to sth
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- surfeiting — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- terrifying — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- unforgiven — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unfreezing — the act or process of relaxing governmental restrictions on wages, prices, credit, etc, or on the manufacture or sale of goods, etc
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- warfighter — A soldier in combat.
- websurfing — Present participle of websurf.
- wharfinger — a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.