9-letter words containing f, e, o
- coniferin — a grayish-white, water-soluble powder, C 16 H 22 O 8 ⋅2H 2 O, obtained from the cambium of coniferous trees and from asparagus: used chiefly in the manufacture of vanillin.
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- corn beef — corned beef.
- cornfield — A cornfield is a field in which corn is being grown.
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornified — Converted into horn; horny.
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- cowfishes — Plural form of cowfish.
- cream off — To cream off part of a group of people means to take them away and treat them in a special way, because they are better than the others.
- crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- 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.
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- de forest — Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- definiton — Misspelling of definition.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- deflexion — deflection
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defocused — Simple past tense and past participle of defocus.
- defoggers — Plural form of defogger.
- 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.
- defoliate — To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- deforests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deforest.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.
- deformity — A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- defrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- defrosted — Simple past tense and past participle of defrost.
- defroster — a device by which the de-icing process of a refrigerator is accelerated, usually by circulating the refrigerant without the expansion process
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- diet food — a type of food intended to help people slim
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- disforest — To disafforest.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- dogfishes — Plural form of dogfish.
- dolefully — sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
- doorframe — the frame of a doorway, including two jambs and a lintel, or head.
- dorsiflex — Bend (something, typically the hand or foot ) dorsally or toward its upper surface.