6-letter words containing a, f, r
- friars — Plural form of friar.
- friary — a monastery of friars, especially those of a mendicant order.
- friday — the sixth day of the week, following Thursday.
- frieda — a female given name.
- friska — a fast section in the music of a Hungarian folk dance or in a piece of music of this style
- frugal — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- frusta — the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base.
- frypan — (US, Australia, New Zealand) A frying pan.
- fugard — Athol (Harold) born 1932, South African playwright and actor.
- fulcra — the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.
- fulmar — any of certain oceanic birds of the petrel family, especially Fulmarus glacialis, a gull-like Arctic species.
- furane — (organic compound) Furan.
- gaffer — the chief electrician on a motion-picture or television production.
- gaufer — a waffle
- go far — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- grafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of graft.
- griffa — griefo.
- hafter — (obsolete) A caviler; a wrangler.
- iframe — (Internet) A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource.
- infare — a party or reception for a newly married couple.
- infra- — below; beneath; after
- jarful — the amount that a jar can hold.
- kaffir — Disparaging and Offensive. (in South Africa) a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person: originally used of the Xhosa people only.
- kafiri — an Indo-Iranian language, or small group of languages, of Nuristan, closely related to but not a part of the Indic subbranch.
- kafirs — Plural form of kafir.
- khafre — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
- kharif — (in India) a crop sown in early summer for harvesting in the autumn.
- laffer — (entertainment industry) A comedy.
- loafer — a person who loafs; lazy person; idler.
- maftir — the concluding section of the portion of the Torah chanted or read in a Jewish service on the Sabbath and festivals.
- mirfac — Mathematics in Recognizable Form Automatically Compiled
- orfray — an ornamental band or border, especially on an ecclesiastical vestment.
- parfum — perfume.
- perfay — truly, by my faith!
- prefab — prefabricated.
- rafale — a burst of artillery fire
- raffee — a triangular sail set in the manner of a square sail above the uppermost yard of a topsail schooner.
- raffia — a fiber obtained from the leaves of the raffia palm, used for tying plants and other objects and for making mats, baskets, hats, and the like.
- raffle — rubbish.
- rafter — a flock, especially of turkeys.
- ramify — have complex branches
- rarefy — to make rare or rarer; make less dense: to rarefy a gas.
- rarify — rarefy
- ratfiv — (language) An enhancement to the RATFOR programming language, developed by Bill Wood while at the Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia PA, now the Fox Chase Cancer Center) in 1980-1981. RATFIV was released on several DECUS (Digital Equipment Corporation User's Group) tapes for VAX/VMS. Among its enhancements were: optional Fortan 77 output, an enhanced Format statement and enhanced macros.
- ratfor — RATional Fortran
- ratify — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- reface — to renew, restore, or repair the face or surface of (buildings, stone, etc.).
- refall — to fall again
- reflag — to register (a foreign ship) so that it flies the flag of the registering nation and thereby comes under the latter's protection.
- s.afr. — South Africa(n)