9-letter words containing r, u, f
- frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- fritz out — on the fritz, not in working order: Our TV went on the fritz last night.
- frivilous — Misspelling of frivolous.
- frivolous — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frogmouth — any Australian and Oriental bird of the family Podargidae, related to the goatsuckers, having a broad, flattened, froglike mouth.
- frouncing — Present participle of frounce.
- fructidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the twelfth month of the year, extending from August 18 to September 16.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- fructuary — a person who enjoys the fruits or rewards (of something)
- fructuate — to bear fruit
- fructuous — productive; fertile; profitable: a fructuous region, rich in natural resources.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- frugivore — any chiefly fruit-eating organism, as certain bats.
- fruit bat — any fruit-eating bat, especially of the suborder Megachiroptera, of tropical regions throughout the Old World, typically having erect, catlike ears and large eyes adapted for night vision, and either tailless or with a rudimentary tail, the numerous species ranging in wingspan from 10 inches to 5 feet (25 cm to 1.5 meters).
- fruit cup — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- fruit fly — any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants.
- fruit gum — a type of chewy sweet with a fruit flavour
- fruit jar — a glass jar for preserving fruit or vegetables, usually holding one pint or one quart and having an airtight cap.
- fruitcake — a rich cake containing dried or candied fruit, nuts, etc.
- fruiterer — a dealer in fruit.
- fruitfull — Archaic form of fruitful.
- fruitiest — Superlative form of fruity.
- fruitions — Plural form of fruition.
- fruitless — useless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search for the missing treasure.
- fruitwood — any of various woods from fruit-bearing trees, used for cabinetmaking and the like.
- frumpiest — frumpish.
- frusemide — Former BAN name of the drug furosemide.
- frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- frustules — Plural form of frustule.
- frustulum — a small breakfast permitted on fast days.
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- fruticous — (botany) fruticose.
- fuel rail — A fuel rail is high pressure tubing which takes fuel to the injectors in an internal combustion engine.
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- fulfiller — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
- fulgorous — brilliant; dazzling
- fulgurant — flashing like lightning.
- fulgurate — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulgurite — a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning.
- fulgurous — characteristic of or resembling lightning: the fulgurous cracking of a whip.
- full bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- full fare — a price (of a travel, cinema ticket, etc) without any discounts
- full term — completion
- full word — (especially in Chinese grammar) a word that has lexical meaning rather than grammatical meaning; a word or morpheme that functions grammatically as a contentive.
- full-bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- full-term — of or noting the entire duration of normal pregnancy.
- fullerene — any of a class of molecules of carbon having a roughly spherical shape.
- fulleride — a compound of a fullerene in which atoms are trapped inside the cage of carbon atoms
- fullering — a half-round hammer used for grooving and spreading iron.