9-letter words containing f, e, n
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- defleaing — Present participle of deflea.
- deflexion — deflection
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defogging — to remove the fog or moisture from (a car window, mirror, etc.).
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- defueling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- defunding — Present participle of defund.
- den chief — (in the Boy Scouts) a boy scout who supervises a cub scout den in cooperation with a den mother or den father.
- denitrify — to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
- densified — to impregnate (wood) with additives under heat and pressure in order to achieve greater density and hardness.
- densifier — something that makes things more dense
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- designful — full of design or intention
- different — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- differing — to disagree in opinion, belief, etc.; be at variance; disagree (often followed by with or from): His business partner always differs with him.
- diffident — lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- difluence — diffluence.
- dignified — characterized or marked by dignity of aspect or manner; stately; decorous: dignified conduct.
- dignifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dignify.
- disfluent — lacking fluency in speech
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disinfest — to rid of insects, rodents, etc.
- downfield — In or to a position nearer to the opponents' end of a field.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- draftsmen — (US) Plural form of draftsman.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- 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.
- driftnets — Plural form of driftnet.
- dwarfness — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- dysfluent — Without proper fluency; not fluent.
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- efavirenz — a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used with other medications to treat HIV infection in patients who have or do not have AIDS.
- effecting — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- effection — Creation; a doing.
- efference — conveying or conducting away from an organ or part (opposed to afferent).
- efficient — (esp. of a system or machine) Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.
- effingham — a town in central Illinois.
- effluence — the action or process of flowing out; efflux.
- effluents — Plural form of effluent.
- effluxion — outward flow, as of water.
- effulgent — shining forth brilliantly; radiant.
- effusions — the act of effusing or pouring forth.
- elfinwood — Krummholz.
- end float — End float is the amount by which a shaft can move lengthwise.
- enfeebled — Make weak or feeble.
- enfeebles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfeeble.