9-letter words containing f, e, c
- crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- crucifers — Plural form of crucifer.
- crucified — Simple past tense and past participle of crucify.
- crucifier — One who crucifies.
- crucifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crucify.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- cyberself — An alternate self on the Internet or in cyberspace; an online alter-ego.
- deacidify — to render (a substance) less acidic
- decalcify — to remove calcium or lime from (bones, teeth, etc)
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- decertify — to withdraw or remove a certificate or certification from (a person, organization, or country)
- defaecate — Alt form defecate.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- defecated — Simple past tense and past participle of defecate.
- defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defecting — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- defencing — defense.
- deference — Deference is a polite and respectful attitude towards someone, especially because they have an important position.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- deficient — If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
- deflected — curved or bent downward.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- defocused — Simple past tense and past participle of defocus.
- defrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- den chief — (in the Boy Scouts) a boy scout who supervises a cub scout den in cooperation with a den mother or den father.
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- difficile — hard to deal with, satisfy, or please.
- difluence — diffluence.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- drift ice — detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.
- dulcified — Sweetened; mollified.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- ecofallow — a method of farming that diminishes weeds and conserves water by rotating crops and reducing or eliminating tillage.
- ecofreaks — Plural form of ecofreak.
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- edificial — a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
- effecting — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.