9-letter words containing s, f, e, r
- miss fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- modifiers — a person or thing that modifies.
- mortifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mortify.
- mystifier — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- newsfroup — (messaging, humour) A silly synonym for Usenet newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's news:talk.bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, and filk.
- nitrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nitrify.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- odiferous — Odoriferous; smelly.
- of course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- off-shore — situated off the coast, at sea
- offenders — Plural form of offender.
- offerings — Plural form of offering.
- offscreen — occurring, existing, or done away from the motion-picture or television screen: an offscreen voice.
- offshored — Simple past tense and past participle of offshore.
- offshores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of offshore.
- offsiders — Plural form of offsider.
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overflush — too flush
- overfocus — to focus too much
- overfussy — too fussy
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstuff — to force too much into: If you overstuff your suitcase, the fastenings may not hold.
- oviferous — bearing eggs.
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- post-free — British. postpaid.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- press fit — a type of fit for mating parts, usually tighter than a sliding fit, used when the parts do not have to move relative to each other
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- professed — avowed; acknowledged.
- professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proof set — a set of coins (proof coins), one of each denomination, minted annually from highly polished metal on special dies, issued for collectors rather than for circulation
- proofless — lacking proof
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- rafflesia — any stemless, leafless, parasitic plant of the genus Rafflesia, of the Malay Peninsula and Republic of Indonesia, characterized by apetalous flowers, measuring 3 in.–3 feet (8 cm–90 cm) in diameter, that exude a putrid odor: now greatly reduced in number.
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- 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.
- red stuff — a compound of oil and sesquioxide of iron used for polishing brass, steel, silver, etc.; crocus or rouge.