10-letter words containing r, u, f, i
- quasi-free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- queer fish — strange person
- quick fire — rapid continuous gunfire, esp at a moving target
- quick-fire — firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.
- quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
- raduliform — rasp-like
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- 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.
- 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.
- refuse bin — a bin for the disposal of rubbish and waste
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- refutative — tending to refute; pertaining to refutation: refutative evidence.
- rejoiceful — to be glad; take delight (often followed by in): to rejoice in another's happiness.
- requiteful — requiting, tending to requite
- rice flour — flour made of finely-ground rice
- rifle butt — the end of the stock of a rifle
- rightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- round file — circular file.
- rudderfish — any of various fishes having the habit of following behind ships, as a pilot fish.
- rue family — the plant family Rutaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple or compound aromatic leaves, fragrant flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the citruses, the gas plant, Hercules'-club, and rue.
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- ruffianism — conduct befitting a ruffian.
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- run for it — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- scurfiness — the state or quality of being scurfy
- sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
- securiform — (of plants) having the shape of an axe
- setiferous — having setae or bristles.
- sixty-four — a cardinal number, 60 plus 4.
- skysurfing — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- soft fruit — berries
- soniferous — conveying or producing sound.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- squamiform — shaped like a scale.
- star fruit — carambola (def 2).
- star-fruit — carambola (def 2).
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- suckerfish — remora.
- suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- surf music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
- surfeiting — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.