9-letter words containing f, d, t
- rectified — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- red stuff — a compound of oil and sesquioxide of iron used for polishing brass, steel, silver, etc.; crocus or rouge.
- redecraft — logic
- reflected — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- refracted — to subject to refraction.
- refudiate — to reject as untrue or refuse to acknowledge.
- roadcraft — the skills and knowledge used to drive road vehicles
- rood loft — a gallery above a rood screen, approached from stairs, used for chantings and readings.
- satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- septemfid — divided into seven
- sheet-fed — (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.
- shift bid — a bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- side-foot — In football, if a player side-foots the ball, they kick it with the side of their foot.
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- softbound — book: paperback
- softgoods — clothing and soft furniture
- softmodem — The integration of modem controller and data pump algorithms into a single RAM-based DSP hardware architecture. These integrated algorithms are stored on the computer's hard disk, from which they are downloaded into the DSP board's random-access memory (RAM). This downloading, or "booting" process of the PC-installed software algorithms occurs as part of the computer's power-up initialisation process in less than 100 milliseconds, making it transparent to the user.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- spindrift — spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea.
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stand-off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- standfast — a rigid or unyielding position.
- stardrift — the very small continuous change in the direction of movement which is shared by the stars within a particular cluster
- statfarad — the electrostatic unit of capacitance, equivalent to 1.1126 × 10 −12 farad and equal to the capacitance of a condenser in which one statcoulomb is transferred from one conductor of the condenser to the other per volt of potential difference between the conductors.
- steadfast — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- stiffened — to make stiff.
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
- stretford — an industrial town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 42 103 (2001)
- stud farm — place where horses are bred
- stupefied — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- surfeited — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- terrified — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- the fiend — the devil; Satan
- the flood — the flood extending over all the earth from which Noah and his family and livestock were saved in the ark. (Genesis 7–8); the Deluge
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- threefold — comprising three parts, members, or aspects; triple: a threefold program.
- tone-deaf — unable to distinguish differences in pitch in musical sounds when producing or hearing them.
- torrified — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- trade off — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade-off — the exchange of one thing for another of more or less equal value, especially to effect a compromise.
- tubificid — a threadlike aquatic annelid worm of the family Tubificidae
- twiforked — having two parts like a fork; bifurcate