9-letter words containing f, e, m, d
- frusemide — Former BAN name of the drug furosemide.
- fumed oak — oak wood given a darker color and more distinct marking by exposure to ammonia fumes
- fumigated — Simple past tense and past participle of fumigate.
- fundament — the buttocks.
- gum field — an area of land containing buried fossilized kauri gum
- half dime — a silver coin of the U.S., equal to five cents, issued 1794–1805 and 1829–73.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- headframe — a structure supporting the hoisting sheaves at the top of a mine shaft.
- indemnify — to compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred, etc.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- leaf mold — a compost or layer of soil consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
- magnified — Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- manfriend — A male friend.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
- masefield — John, 1878–1967, English poet: poet laureate 1930–67.
- mattified — Simple past tense and past participle of mattify.
- megafarad — a unit of electric capacitance equal to one million farads
- mercified — Simple past tense and past participle of mercify.
- metrified — Simple past tense and past participle of metrify.
- midwifery — the technique or practice of a midwife.
- minefield — an area of land or water throughout which explosive mines have been laid.
- misdefine — to define wrongly or badly
- misfitted — something that fits badly, as a garment that is too large or too small.
- misfolded — Simple past tense and past participle of misfold.
- misformed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- mistified — Simple past tense and past participle of mistify.
- modifiers — a person or thing that modifies.
- mollified — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- moonfaced — Alternative spelling of moon-faced.
- mortified — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- mufflered — Wearing a muffler.
- mummified — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
- mystified — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- old flame — An old flame is someone with whom you once had a romantic relationship.
- performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- preformed — to form beforehand.
- premodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- reformado — (formerly) a disgraced officer who is deprived of his command but still has the same rank and sometimes is still paid
- remindful — reviving memory of something; reminiscent.
- safe mode — (operating system) An alternative way to start Microsoft Windows such that only a minimal set of software components (drivers and background processes) are loaded, making it easier to diagnose problems. Safe mode loads a standard low resolution video driver and does not support connection to the Internet. Windows will sometimes restart in safe mode automatically following a crash. All Windows versions except Windows 3.1 can be started in safe mode, usually by holding the Ctrl or F8 key while the computer is restarting. To start Windows NT in safe mode you need to edit C:\boot.ini. Once the problem is fixed you need to restart Windows normally to load all the installed components.
- self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
- semideify — to elevate (a person, object, or nature) to the status of a demigod.
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.
- septemfid — divided into seven
- 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.
- twiformed — consisting of two parts
- unfreedom — the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial.