4-letter words containing r, f
- furs — Plural form of fur.
- fury — unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
- fyrd — the militia in Anglo-Saxon England.
- graf — Stephanie Maria ("Steffi") born 1969, German tennis player.
- gruf — (obsolete) forwards; with one's face to the ground.
- href — (web) (hypertext reference) The attribute of an HTML "a" (anchor or link) tag, whose value gives the URL of the web page or other resource that the link points to. For example, FOLDOC href definition would display an anchor pointing to this dictionary.
- irtf — Internet Research Task Force
- kerf — a cut or incision made by a saw or the like in a piece of wood.
- mfr. — manufacture.
- nerf — (lowercase) Slang. (in a video game) to reconfigure (an existing character or weapon), making it less powerful: The game development team nerfed several guns in the recent update.
- norf — Norfolk
- orfe — A fish, the ide, Leuciscus idus.
- orff — Carl, 1895–1982, German composer, conductor, and music educator.
- perf — chad
- prof — professor.
- raaf — Royal Australian Air Force
- racf — Resource Access Control Facility
- raff — Joseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
- raft — a great quantity; a lot: a raft of trouble.
- rcaf — Royal Canadian Air Force
- reef — a part of a sail that is rolled and tied down to reduce the area exposed to the wind.
- refi — a refinancing of a debt
- refl — reflection
- reft — a simple past tense and past participle of reave1 .
- reif — plunder; booty; loot.
- rfid — Radio-frequency identification
- rflp — restriction fragment length polymorphism: a fragment of DNA, cut by a restriction enzyme, that is different in length for each genetically related group and is used to trace family relationships.
- rife — of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use: Crime is rife in the slum areas of our cities.
- riff — Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
- rift — an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- roff — (text, tool) A text formatting language associated with Unix. See groff, nroff, troff.
- rofl — ROTFL
- rolf — to vomit.
- roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- rtfb — (jargon) (By analogy with RTFM) Read The Fucking Binary. Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyse the assembler or even the machine code. "RTFB" is the least pejorative of the RTF? forms, the anger is directed at the absence of both source *and* adequate documentation rather than at the person asking a question.
- rtfm — (jargon) /R T F M/ Read The Fucking Manual (always abbreviated, sometimes bowdlerised to "Fine" or "Friendly") An (unhelpful) guru's traditional response when someone asks a question in a newsgroup or mailing list which he could have easily answered for himself had he bothered to RTFM. The term may also be used to indicate that you couldn't find the answer in the manual. E.g. "How do I interface Unix to my toaster? And yes, I did RTFM but the FM didn't help and I can't RTFS." Other derived forms include RTFAQ, RTFB, RTM, RYFM and, more recently, STFW. Compare: UTSL.
- rtfo — renewable transport fuels obligation: an obligation placed on fuel suppliers to ensure that a certain percentage of their aggregate sales is made up of biofuels
- rtfs — (jargon) 1. Read The Fucking Source. Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals - or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be. For even trickier situations, see RTFB. Unlike RTFM, the anger inherent in RTFS is not usually directed at the person asking the question, but rather at the people who failed to provide adequate documentation. 2. Read The Fucking Standard; this oath can only be used when the problem area (e.g. a language or operating system interface) has actually been codified in a ratified standards document. The existence of these standards documents (and the technically inappropriate but politically mandated compromises that they inevitably contain, and the impenetrable legalese in which they are invariably written, and the unbelievably tedious bureaucratic process by which they are produced) can be unnerving to hackers, who are used to a certain amount of ambiguity in the specifications of the systems they use. (Hackers feel that such ambiguities are acceptable as long as the Right Thing to do is obvious to any thinking observer; sadly, this casual attitude toward specifications becomes unworkable when a system becomes popular in the Real World.) Since a hacker is likely to feel that a standards document is both unnecessary and technically deficient, the deprecation inherent in this term may be directed as much against the standard as against the person who ought to read it.
- ruff — a small European freshwater fish, Acerina cernua, of the perch family.
- rufl — Rhodes University Functional Language. A Miranda-like functional language from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa with a SPARC code generator.
- ryfm — (abuse) 1. "Read Your Fucking Manual". Uncommon variant of RTFM. 2. "Read Your Fucking Mail". A gentle reminder to someone to check their corresponence and, who knows, maybe even respond.
- serf — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- surf — the swell of the sea that breaks upon a shore or upon shoals.
- tref — Judaism. unfit to be eaten or used, according to religious laws; not kosher.
- turf — a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
- urfa — a city in SE Turkey, E of the Euphrates River: on the site of ancient Edessa.
- urfé — Honoré d' (ɔnɔre d). 1568–1625, French writer, whose pastoral L'Astrée (1607–27) is considered the first French novel
- wfra — West Ferris Ringette Association
- wfru — World Fantasy Rugby Union
- wraf — Women's Royal Air Force