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7-letter words containing r, f, e

  • quaffer — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
  • raffiné — refined; cultivated
  • raffled — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
  • raffles — rubbish.
  • rageful — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
  • rc file — /R C fi:l/ [Unix: from the startup script "/etc/rc", but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to "run commands"] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also dot file, profile (sense 1).
  • re-form — When an organization, group, or shape re-forms, or when someone re-forms it, it is created again after a period during which it did not exist or existed in a different form.
  • re-fund — to fund anew.
  • re-gift — an unwanted gift that is given away.
  • re-roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
  • reaffix — to affix (something) again
  • rectify — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
  • red eft — a newt, especially the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens (red eft) in its immature terrestrial stage.
  • red fir — any of several firs, as Abies magnifica, of the western U.S., having a reddish bark.
  • red fox — a fox, Vulpes vulpes, usually having orangish-red to reddish-brown fur.
  • redfish — Also called ocean perch, rosefish. a North Atlantic rockfish, Sebastes marinus, used for food.
  • redflag — the symbol or banner of a left-wing revolutionary party.
  • redfoot — a fatal disease of newborn lambs of unknown cause in which the horny layers of the feet become separated, exposing the red laminae below
  • redford — Robert. born 1936, US film actor and director. His films include (as actor) Barefoot in the Park (1966), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), All the President's Men (1976), Up Close and Personal (1996), and (as director) Ordinary People (1980), A River Runs Through It (1992), and The Horse Whisperer (1998)
  • redraft — a second draft or drawing.
  • reefing — a part of a sail that is rolled and tied down to reduce the area exposed to the wind.
  • ref-arf — ["REF-ARF: A System for Solving Problems Stated as Procedures", R.E. Fikes, Artif Intell J 1(1), Spring 1970].
  • refence — to provide (something) with a fence again
  • referee — one to whom something is referred, especially for decision or settlement; arbitrator.
  • referer — (web)   A misspelling of "referrer" which somehow made it into the HTTP standard. A given web page's referer (sic) is the URL of whatever web page contains the link that the user followed to the current page. Most browsers pass this information as part of a request.
  • refight — to fight (someone or something) again
  • refined — having or showing well-bred feeling, taste, etc.: refined people.
  • refiner — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
  • refired — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • reflate — to increase again the amount of money and credit in circulation.
  • reflect — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
  • reflisp — (language)   A small Lisp interpreter written in C++ by Bill Birch of Bull, UK. RefLisp has a built-in web server, Wiki, LISP server pages, SQL Databases, XML parser, MD5 hashing, regular expressions, reference counting and mark-sweep garbage collection. RefLisp has shallow-binding and dynamic scope with optional support for lexical scope, Common Lisp compatibility and for indefinite extent Scheme programs. RefLisp is distributed under the GPL.
  • refloat — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
  • reflood — to flood again
  • refocus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
  • reforge — to forge again
  • reforms — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
  • refound — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • refract — to subject to refraction.
  • refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • reframe — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
  • refresh — to provide new vigor and energy by rest, food, etc. (often used reflexively).
  • refront — to put a new front on something
  • refuged — shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.: to take refuge from a storm.
  • refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
  • refugia — an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.
  • refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
  • refutal — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
  • regraft — to graft again
  • reified — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
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