9-letter words containing r, t, f
- cockcroft — Sir John Douglas. 1897–1967, English nuclear physicist. With E. T. S. Walton, he produced the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) and shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951
- cofactors — Plural form of cofactor.
- cofeature — a joint feature
- colorfast — A fabric that is colorfast has a color that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- comforted — to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to: They tried to comfort her after her loss.
- comforter — A comforter is a person or thing that comforts you.
- confiteor — a prayer consisting of a general confession of sinfulness and an entreaty for forgiveness
- confiture — a confection, preserve of fruit, etc
- confronte — (of two animals) face to face
- confronts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confront.
- cord foot — a quantity of wood 4 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 1 foot long (1.2 m × 1.2 m × 0.3 meters), or 16 cu. ft. (0.5 cu. m).
- cornforth — Sir John Warcup. 1917–2014, Australian chemist, who shared the 1975 Nobel prize for chemistry with Vladimir Prelog for their work on stereochemistry
- count for — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- craftiest — Superlative form of crafty.
- craftless — without craft or cunning
- craftsman — A craftsman is a man who makes things skilfully with his hands.
- craftsmen — a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- crossfoot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crowfoots — Plural form of crowfoot.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- de forest — Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
- decertify — to withdraw or remove a certificate or certification from (a person, organization, or country)
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- defeature — to blemish or disfigure (a person or thing)
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- deferents — Plural form of deferent.
- deferment — Deferment means arranging for something to happen at a later date.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- deforests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deforest.
- deformity — A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- defrosted — Simple past tense and past participle of defrost.
- defroster — a device by which the de-icing process of a refrigerator is accelerated, usually by circulating the refrigerant without the expansion process
- delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
- denitrify — to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- devitrify — to change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state
- different — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- differeth — Archaic third-person singular form of differ.