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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.
  • guardafuiCape, 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.
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