9-letter words containing a, d, e, f
- old flame — An old flame is someone with whom you once had a romantic relationship.
- overdraft — an act or instance of overdrawing a checking account.
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- pedatifid — (of a plant leaf) pedately divided, with the divisions less deep than in a pedate leaf
- perfboard — hardboard with perforations into which pegs or hooks can be inserted for hanging or displaying objects.
- pie-faced — having a broad, flat face and, sometimes, a vacuous or stupid expression.
- playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
- powfagged — exhausted
- prefabbed — prefabricated.
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- proofread — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- quad left — (in computer typesetting) flush left.
- qualified — having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- red dwarf — any of the faint reddish stars having diameters about half that of the sun and low surface temperatures, about 2000–3000 K; a main sequence star of spectral type M.
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- red-faced — having a red face.
- redecraft — logic
- referenda — the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body, head of state, etc., to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. Compare initiative (def 4a).
- reformado — (formerly) a disgraced officer who is deprived of his command but still has the same rank and sometimes is still paid
- reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- refracted — to subject to refraction.
- refrained — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refudiate — to reject as untrue or refuse to acknowledge.
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.
- rewardful — offering reward; rewarding
- sad-faced — having a face characterized by or expressing sorrow.
- safe mode — (operating system) An alternative way to start Microsoft Windows such that only a minimal set of software components (drivers and background processes) are loaded, making it easier to diagnose problems. Safe mode loads a standard low resolution video driver and does not support connection to the Internet. Windows will sometimes restart in safe mode automatically following a crash. All Windows versions except Windows 3.1 can be started in safe mode, usually by holding the Ctrl or F8 key while the computer is restarting. To start Windows NT in safe mode you need to edit C:\boot.ini. Once the problem is fixed you need to restart Windows normally to load all the installed components.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- sand flea — beach flea.
- satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- sawed-off — sawed off at the end, as a shotgun or broomstick.
- seed leaf — a cotyledon.
- self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- shades of — something reminding one of something (or someone) past
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- steadfast — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- tone-deaf — unable to distinguish differences in pitch in musical sounds when producing or hearing them.
- trade off — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade-off — the exchange of one thing for another of more or less equal value, especially to effect a compromise.
- two-faced — having two faces.
- unbaffled — not baffled or confused by contradictions