Words Containing: E,F,I,I,R,S,S

• a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution

• silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing

• a silvery variety of Carassius auratus

• a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

• lively high-spirited playfulness

• A sailing ship that has been set alight and left to drift into an opposing fleet. Famously used by Englishman Sir Francis Drake when fighting the Spanish Armada of 1588.

• A diseased prostitute.

• the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

• personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)

• a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value

• the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity

• (baseball) an out that advances the base runners

• endure the loss of

• kill or destroy

• sell at a loss

• make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals

• someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent)

• someone who falsifies

• To finish again; especially, to apply a fresh finish, as a new coat of varnish or paint.