8-letter words containing f, e, d
- coffined — Simple past tense and past participle of coffin.
- confided — Simple past tense and past participle of confide.
- confider — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confides — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- confixed — Simple past tense and past participle of confix.
- confused — If you are confused, you do not know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confuted — Simple past tense and past participle of confute.
- corn-fed — fed on corn, esp maize
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
- de kruif — Paul (Henry)1890-1971; U.S. bacteriologist & writer
- deadbeef — (convention, storage) /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
- deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
- deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
- deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- deathful — characterized by or causing death
- debriefs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debrief.
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- deep-fry — If you deep-fry food, you fry it in a large amount of fat or oil.
- deepfelt — relating to a sincere or profound experience
- deer fly — any of several tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops, the female of which is a vector of tularemia in deer, livestock, and humans.
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- 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.
- defatted — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- defaults — Plural form of default.
- defeated — having suffered defeat; beaten
- defeater — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- defecate — When people and animals defecate, they get rid of waste matter from their body through their anus.
- defected — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- 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
- deferral — Deferral means the same as deferment.
- deferred — withheld over a certain period; postponed
- deferrer — to put off (action, consideration, etc.) to a future time: The decision has been deferred by the board until next week.
- deffered — Misspelling of deferred.