9-letter words containing f, i, d
- devitrify — to change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- diet food — a type of food intended to help people slim
- different — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- differeth — Archaic third-person singular form of differ.
- differing — to disagree in opinion, belief, etc.; be at variance; disagree (often followed by with or from): His business partner always differs with him.
- difficile — hard to deal with, satisfy, or please.
- difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- diffident — lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- difflugia — a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.
- diffusate — (in dialysis) the solution or the crystalline material that passes into it through the semipermeable membrane; dialyzate.
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- diffusers — Plural form of diffuser.
- diffusing — Present participle of diffuse.
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- diffusive — tending to diffuse; characterized by diffusion.
- 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.
- dip fault — a fault that runs perpendicular to the strike of the affected rocks (i.e. parallel to the plane of the angle of dip of the rocks)
- dipperful — (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.
- 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.
- direfully — In a direful manner.
- dirt farm — a tract of land on which a dirt farmer works.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- disaffirm — to deny; contradict.
- disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
- disc film — film used in a disc camera.
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- discomfit — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- disfavors — Plural form of disfavor.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disfigure — to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- disfluent — lacking fluency in speech
- disforest — To disafforest.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.
- disfrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfrock.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disinfest — to rid of insects, rodents, etc.
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- disprofit — to (cause to) fail to profit
- distaffer — a woman, especially in a field or place usually or generally dominated by men: the first distaffer to have a seat on the stock exchange.
- disulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disulfide — (in inorganic chemistry) a sulfide containing two atoms of sulfur, as carbon disulfide, CS 2 .
- diversify — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- dog shift — graveyard shift.