9-letter words containing f, e, d, i
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- 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.
- disulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disulfide — (in inorganic chemistry) a sulfide containing two atoms of sulfur, as carbon disulfide, CS 2 .
- diversify — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- dogfishes — Plural form of dogfish.
- dorsiflex — Bend (something, typically the hand or foot ) dorsally or toward its upper surface.
- downfield — In or to a position nearer to the opponents' end of a field.
- 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.
- driftless — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- driftnets — Plural form of driftnet.
- 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
- dulcified — Sweetened; mollified.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- edificial — a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
- eightfold — Eight times as great or as numerous.
- elfinwood — Krummholz.
- enfiladed — Simple past tense and past participle of enfilade.
- enfolding — Present participle of enfold.
- faddiness — the state or quality of being excessively fussy, esp with food
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar
- fair deal — the principles of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Harry S Truman, consisting largely of a continuation and development of the principles of the New Deal.
- fair-lead — a pulley block, metal ring, etc. used to guide a line and cause it to run easily without chafing
- fairfaced — (of brickwork) having a neat smooth unplastered surface
- fairfield — a city in central California.
- fairtrade — Produced in such a way that all producers of the product receive a fair wage for their work.
- falsified — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- fancified — to make fancy or fanciful; dress up; embellish.
- fantasied — noting or relating to any of various games or leagues in which fans assemble players of a professional sport into imaginary teams, and points are scored based on the performance of these players in real games: fantasy football; fantasy sports.
- farandine — a cloth made from silk and wool (or silk and hair)
- fasciated — Showing abnormal fusion of parts or organs, resulting in a flattened, ribbonlike structure.
- fascicled — Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster.
- fashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of fashion.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- feederism — A paraphilia in which arousal is obtained from overfeeding.
- feedgrain — any cereal grain used as a feed for livestock, poultry, or other animals.
- feignedly — pretended; sham; counterfeit: feigned enthusiasm.
- feijoadas — Plural form of feijoada.
- felt side — the top side of a sheet of paper, the side against the felt rollers during manufacture, normally preferred for printing.
- feminised — Alternative spelling of feminized.
- feminized — Made feminine; made to have more feminine behaviour, traits or physiology.
- feralized — having once been domesticated but subsequently returned to wildness