9-letter words containing d, a, f
- gas-fired — using a gas for fuel.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- gift card — gift voucher in plastic card form
- god-awful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- gold leaf — gold in the form of very thin foil, as for gilding.
- goodfaced — with a handsome face
- goodfella — a gangster, esp one in the Mafia
- grand feu — a firing of ceramics at a high temperature.
- grand fir — a large fir, Abies grandis, of the western coast of North America, having a narrow, pointed crown and yielding a soft wood used for lumber, pulp, and boxes.
- gratified — Obsolete. to reward; remunerate.
- guardafui — Cape, a cape at the E extremity of Africa.
- half deck — (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.
- half dime — a silver coin of the U.S., equal to five cents, issued 1794–1805 and 1829–73.
- half tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-clad — partially dressed
- half-dead — no longer living; deprived of life: dead people; dead flowers; dead animals.
- half-deaf — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- half-deck — a deck on an old ship of war that is situated below the upper deck and extends aft from the mainmast
- half-done — past participle of do1 .
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hand-feed — Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.
- handcraft — handicraft.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- hands off — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-off — characterized by nonintervention or noninterference: the new hands-off foreign policy.
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handstaff — a small spear
- hard fern — a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- head chef — professional cook who runs a kitchen
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headframe — a structure supporting the hoisting sheaves at the top of a mine shaft.
- headscarf — A square of fabric worn as a covering for the head, often folded into a triangle and knotted under the chin.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
- in aid of — An activity or event in aid of a particular cause or charity is intended to raise money for that cause or charity.
- infandous — (obsolete) Extremely odious.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- infra dig — beneath one's dignity.
- infra-red — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infradian — (of a rhythm or cycle ) having a period of recurrence longer than a day; occurring less than once a day.
- ingrafted — engraft.