| affiant | (noun) a person who makes an affidavit | - |
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| defiance | (noun) a defiant act | - |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
| (noun) a hostile challenge | - |
| fiance | (noun) a man who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: groom-to-be |
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| fiancee | (noun) a woman who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: bride-to-be |
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| fiasco | (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: debacle |
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| fiat | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, order, rescript |
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| kniphofia | (noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, flameflower, tritoma |
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| maffia | (noun) any tightly knit group of trusted associates | Synonyms: mafia |
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| mafia | (noun) any tightly knit group of trusted associates | Synonyms: maffia |
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| quantifiability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: measurability |
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| raffia | (noun) fiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets | - |
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| (noun) leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc. | Synonyms: raphia |
| ratafia | (noun) sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds | Synonyms: ratafee |
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| (noun) macaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur | Synonyms: ratafia biscuit |
| rauvolfia | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | Synonyms: rauwolfia |
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| rauwolfia | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | Synonyms: rauvolfia |
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| (noun) any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina | - |
| ruffian | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| ruffianism | (noun) violent lawless behavior | - |
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| suksdorfia | (noun) any of several American plants of the genus Suksdorfia having orbicular to kidney-shaped somewhat succulent leaves and white or rose or violet flowers in terminal panicles | - |
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| verifiability | (noun) The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability. | - |
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