8-letter words containing e, n, f
- confinee — a person held in confinement.
- confiner — One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- confines — limits; boundaries
- confirme — Obsolete spelling of confirm.
- confixed — Simple past tense and past participle of confix.
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- confrere — colleague
- confused — If you are confused, you do not know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confuser — One who or that which confuses.
- confuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confuse.
- confuted — Simple past tense and past participle of confute.
- confuter — A person who confutes.
- confutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confute.
- conifers — Plural form of conifer.
- corn-fed — fed on corn, esp maize
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- defanged — to remove the fangs of: to defang a snake.
- defenced — defense.
- defences — any means of defence
- defended — Simple past tense and past participle of defend.
- defender — If someone is a defender of a particular thing or person that has been criticized, they argue or act in support of that thing or person.
- defensed — resistance against attack; protection: Two more regiments are needed for the defense of the city.
- defenses — Plural form of defense.
- defensin — (protein) Any of a family of cysteine-rich proteins that are active against bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- defensor — One who defends; a defender.
- deferent — (esp of a bodily nerve, vessel, or duct) conveying an impulse, fluid, etc, outwards, down, or away; efferent
- defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
- defiling — Present participle of defile.
- definate — Misspelling of definite.
- definers — Plural form of definer.
- defining — decisive; critically important: Taking a course in architecture was a defining turn in her life.
- definite — If something such as a decision or an arrangement is definite, it is firm and clear, and unlikely to be changed.
- defluent — running downwards
- defriend — to remove (a person) from the list of one's friends on a social networking website
- defrozen — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- deftness — dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: deft hands; a deft mechanic.
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- deifying — Present participle of deify.
- denazify — to free or declare (people, institutions, etc) freed from Nazi influence or ideology
- denotify — (transitive, India) To repeal the categorization of (a tribe) as criminal under the w Criminal Tribes Act.
- diolefin — diene.
- disneyfy — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.