9-letter words containing a, c, f
- deacidify — to render (a substance) less acidic
- decalcify — to remove calcium or lime from (bones, teeth, etc)
- defaecate — Alt form defecate.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- defecated — Simple past tense and past participle of defecate.
- defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- ecofallow — a method of farming that diminishes weeds and conserves water by rotating crops and reducing or eliminating tillage.
- ecofreaks — Plural form of ecofreak.
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- edificial — a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
- effectual — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- fabaceous — belonging to the Fabaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Leguminosae.
- fabricant — a maker or manufacturer.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.
- face card — the king, queen, or jack of playing cards.
- face cord — a measure of wood cut for fuel, as arranged in a pile 8 feet wide, 4 feet high, and with pieces 12 to 18 inches in length
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- face gear — a disklike gear having teeth cut on the face more or less radially and engaging with a spur or helical pinion, the axis of which is at right angles to it.
- face mask — Sports. the protective equipment, usually made of steel or plastic, that guards the face, as the steel cage worn by a baseball catcher or the molded plastic covering worn by a hockey goalkeeper.
- face pack — A face pack is a thick substance which you spread on your face, allow to dry for a short time, and then remove, in order to clean your skin thoroughly.
- face time — time spent speaking or meeting with one or more people face to face, in contrast to phone conversations or other means of communication: Is he available for a couple of hours of face time?
- face-ache — neuralgia
- face-lift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- face-nail — to secure with nails driven perpendicular to the surface. Compare toenail (def 4).
- face-time — Face-time is time that you spend talking directly to someone, rather than talking by phone or email.
- facecloth — washcloth.
- facefirst — Violently forward, so as to strike something with one's face.
- facelifts — Plural form of facelift.
- faceplant — (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- faceplate — (on a lathe) a perforated plate, mounted on the live spindle, to which the work is attached.
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- facialist — a person who has special training in administering facials and other skin treatments for the face.
- facsimile — an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.
- facticity — the condition or quality of being a fact; factuality.
- factional — of a faction or factions.
- factitive — noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.
- factivity — (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase) presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left.
- factoidal — of or resembling a factoid; (of a piece of writing) comprising facts and factoids
- factor in — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factor ix — a blood constituent necessary for clotting, the absence of which is characterized by a hemophilialike condition.
- factorage — the action or business of a factor.
- factorial — Mathematics. the product of a given positive integer multiplied by all lesser positive integers: The quantity four factorial (4!) = 4 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 2 ⋅ 1 = 24. Symbol: n!, where n is the given integer.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.