9-letter words containing d, f
- delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- demystify — If you demystify something, you make it easier to understand by giving a clear explanation of it.
- demythify — to remove the mythical characteristics from (a person)
- den chief — (in the Boy Scouts) a boy scout who supervises a cub scout den in cooperation with a den mother or den father.
- denitrify — to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
- densified — to impregnate (wood) with additives under heat and pressure in order to achieve greater density and hardness.
- densifier — something that makes things more dense
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- deshuffle — (signal processing) To restore shuffled data to its original ordered state.
- designful — full of design or intention
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- deskfasts — Plural form of deskfast.
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- devilfish — any manta
- devitrify — to change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- diet food — a type of food intended to help people slim
- different — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- differeth — Archaic third-person singular form of differ.
- differing — to disagree in opinion, belief, etc.; be at variance; disagree (often followed by with or from): His business partner always differs with him.
- difficile — hard to deal with, satisfy, or please.
- difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- diffident — lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- difflugia — a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.
- diffusate — (in dialysis) the solution or the crystalline material that passes into it through the semipermeable membrane; dialyzate.
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- diffusers — Plural form of diffuser.
- diffusing — Present participle of diffuse.
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- diffusive — tending to diffuse; characterized by diffusion.
- difluence — diffluence.
- dignified — characterized or marked by dignity of aspect or manner; stately; decorous: dignified conduct.
- dignifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dignify.
- dip fault — a fault that runs perpendicular to the strike of the affected rocks (i.e. parallel to the plane of the angle of dip of the rocks)
- dipperful — (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- direfully — In a direful manner.
- dirt farm — a tract of land on which a dirt farmer works.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- disaffirm — to deny; contradict.
- disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
- disc film — film used in a disc camera.
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- discomfit — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- disfavors — Plural form of disfavor.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.