9-letter words containing d, i, f, r
- densifier — something that makes things more dense
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- devitrify — to change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state
- 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.
- diffusers — Plural form of diffuser.
- 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.
- disaffirm — to deny; contradict.
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- disfavors — Plural form of disfavor.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disfigure — to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- disforest — To disafforest.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.
- disfrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfrock.
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- disprofit — to (cause to) fail to profit
- distaffer — a woman, especially in a field or place usually or generally dominated by men: the first distaffer to have a seat on the stock exchange.
- diversify — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- dolorific — Of or relating to pain.
- dorsiflex — Bend (something, typically the hand or foot ) dorsally or toward its upper surface.
- drag lift — a lift which drags skiers up to the top of the slope
- draglifts — Plural form of draglift.
- drain off — liquid: remove
- draw fire — If you draw fire for something that you have done, you cause people to criticize you or attack you because of it.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- drift ice — detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.
- drift net — a fishing net supported upright in the water by floats attached along the upper edge and sinkers along the lower, so as to be carried with the current or tide.
- drift off — fall asleep
- driftbolt — Also called driftpin. a spike having a round shank and used for fastening heavy timbers together.
- driftfish — any of several butterfishes, especially of the genus Psenes, inhabiting tropical waters.
- driftless — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- driftnets — Plural form of driftnet.
- driftwood — wood floating on a body of water or cast ashore by it.
- drip feed — intravenous feeding.
- drip-feed — intravenous feeding.
- drive fit — assembly of two tightly fitting parts, as a hub on a shaft, made by a press or the like.
- drive off — vehicle: pull out, move off
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar