9-letter words containing ref
- areflexia — (pathology) Lack of neuromuscular reflexes. A symptom associated with many neurological disorders.
- areflexic — Lb pathology Exhibiting, or relating to, areflexia.
- barefaced — You use barefaced to describe someone's behavior when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- carefront — To caringly confront an individual; To approach someone in love and respect and correct them in an honoring manner.
- carefully — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
- carrefour — a public square, esp one at the intersection of several roads
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- direfully — In a direful manner.
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- fearefull — Obsolete form of fearful.
- fibrefill — a synthetic fibre used as a filling for pillows, quilted materials, etc
- firefight — an exchange of gunfire between two opposing forces, especially a skirmish between military forces.
- fireflies — Plural form of firefly.
- firefloat — a boat used for firefighting
- fireflood — a procedure designed to extract more oil from a well by injecting compressed air into the ground and burning some of the oil to increase the flow.
- forefront — the foremost part or place.
- prefabbed — prefabricated.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prefatory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
- preferred — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- prefigure — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- prefilled — filled in advance
- prefilter — any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- preformat — to format in advance
- preformed — to form beforehand.
- prefreeze — to freeze beforehand
- prereform — of the period before reform
- proreform — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- refectory — a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.
- referable — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- reference — pointer
- referenda — the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body, head of state, etc., to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. Compare initiative (def 4a).
- referring — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- refinance — to finance again.
- refinding — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- refine on — to improve, as by adding refinements
- refined c — (RC) An extension of C to directly specify data access rights so that flow analysis, and hence automatic parallelisation, is more effective. Research implementations only. "Refining A Conventional Language For Race-Free Specification Of Parallel Algorithms," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1984 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.380-382.
- refinedly — in a refined manner
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- reflected — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- reflecter — a critic or someone who casts reflections or thoughts
- reflector — a person or thing that reflects.
- reflexion — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- reflexive — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
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