9-Letter Words Containing: FAT_

• To encircle with outstretched arms, especially to take a measurement; to embrace.

• To measure the depth of, take a sounding of.

• To get to the bottom of; to manage to comprehend; understand (a problem etc.).

• in a prophetically fateful manner

• any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism

• someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild

• (used informally) stupid

• serving as an introduction or preface

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction