8-letter words containing f, e
- defreeze — the process of unfreezing
- defriend — to remove (a person) from the list of one's friends on a social networking website
- defrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrock.
- defrosts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrost.
- defrozen — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- deftness — dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: deft hands; a deft mechanic.
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- deifying — Present participle of deify.
- denazify — to free or declare (people, institutions, etc) freed from Nazi influence or ideology
- denotify — (transitive, India) To repeal the categorization of (a tribe) as criminal under the w Criminal Tribes Act.
- deptford — a district in the Greater London borough of Lewisham, on the S bank of the River Thames: formerly the site of the Royal Naval dockyard
- deskfast — breakfast eaten at one's desk at work
- desulfur — to free from sulfur; desulfurize.
- detoxify — If someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol detoxifies, or if they are detoxified, they undergo treatment which stops them from being addicted.
- devil of — (intensifier)
- dewikify — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.
- differed — to be unlike, dissimilar, or distinct in nature or qualities (often followed by from): The two writers differ greatly in their perceptions of the world. Each writer's style differs from that of another.
- diffused — Simple past tense and past participle of diffuse.
- diffuser — a person or thing that diffuses.
- diffuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diffuse.
- digestif — a drink of brandy, liqueur, etc., taken after a meal to aid the digestion.
- diolefin — diene.
- dirgeful — Having the qualities of a dirge; moaning.
- disflesh — (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
- disneyfy — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- dog flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- dogfaces — Plural form of dogface.
- dolefull — Obsolete spelling of doleful.
- dollface — a person having a smooth, unblemished complexion and small, regular features.
- done for — past participle of do1 .
- doofuses — Plural form of doofus.
- dot file — (operating system, convention) A Unix application program configuration file. On Unix, files named with a leading dot are not normally shown in directory listings. Many programs define one or more dot files in which startup or configuration information may be optionally recorded; a user can customise the program's behaviour by creating the appropriate file in the current or home directory. Dot files tend to proliferate - with every nontrivial application program defining at least one, a user's home directory can be filled with scores of dot files, without the user really being aware of it. Common examples are .profile, .cshrc, .login, .emacs, .mailrc, .forward, .newsrc, .plan, .rhosts, .sig, .xsession. See also profile, rc file.
- dowfness — the quality or characteristic of being dowf
- doze off — to sleep lightly or fitfully.
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drifters — Plural form of drifter.
- driftnet — Alternative spelling of drift net.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- drumfire — gunfire so heavy and continuous as to sound like the beating of drums.
- dubuffet — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1901–85, French painter.
- duckface — Informal. a facial expression in which the lips are pressed together and pushed forward, especially in a photograph.
- dumfries — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dyestuff — a material yielding or used as a dye.
- ear tuft — a tuft of long feathers above the eyes of some owls and other birds that becomes erect when the bird is excited or afraid but is not used in hearing.
- earflaps — Plural form of earflap.