9-letter words containing r, f, i, d
- hold fire — If you hold fire in a situation, you delay before taking action.
- horrified — showing or indicating great shock or horror: a horrified gasp; a horrified expression.
- hydrofoil — Naval Architecture. a surface form creating a thrust against water in a direction perpendicular to the plane approximated by the surface.
- 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.
- infielder — any of the four defensive players stationed around the infield.
- infra dig — beneath one's dignity.
- infra-red — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infradian — (of a rhythm or cycle ) having a period of recurrence longer than a day; occurring less than once a day.
- infringed — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
- ingrafted — engraft.
- interfold — to fold one within another; fold together.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leinsdorf — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1912–1993, U.S. orchestra conductor, born in Austria.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- lifeworld — All the immediate experiences, activities, and contacts that make up the world of an individual or corporate life.
- lim fjord — a fjord in N Denmark running E from the North Sea to the Kattegat. About 110 miles (175 km) long.
- manfriend — A male friend.
- mercified — Simple past tense and past participle of mercify.
- metrified — Simple past tense and past participle of metrify.
- midwifery — the technique or practice of a midwife.
- misformed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- modifiers — a person or thing that modifies.
- mortified — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- nitrified — Simple past tense and past participle of nitrify.
- odiferous — Odoriferous; smelly.
- officered — Simple past tense and past participle of officer.
- offsiders — Plural form of offsider.
- oil-fired — Oil-fired heating systems and power stations use oil as a fuel.
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- perfervid — very fervent; extremely ardent; impassioned: perfervid patriotism.
- petrified — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- picofarad — one trillionth of a farad. Abbreviation: pF.
- predefine — to define in advance
- prefilled — filled in advance
- premodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- quadrifid — cleft into four parts or lobes.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- rectified — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redefined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- refinding — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- refined c — (RC) An extension of C to directly specify data access rights so that flow analysis, and hence automatic parallelisation, is more effective. Research implementations only. "Refining A Conventional Language For Race-Free Specification Of Parallel Algorithms," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1984 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.380-382.
- refinedly — in a refined manner
- refrained — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refudiate — to reject as untrue or refuse to acknowledge.
- remindful — reviving memory of something; reminiscent.
- ricefield — a field where rice is grown
- richfield — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- riflebird — any of several birds of paradise of Australia, having a long bill, dark plumage, and elaborate courtship displays.