9-letter words containing f, i, r, e
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- debriefed — Simple past tense and past participle of debrief.
- debriefer — a person who debriefs or creates a report after an assignment or an incident
- decertify — to withdraw or remove a certificate or certification from (a person, organization, or country)
- deerfield — a city in NE Illinois.
- deferring — to submit for decision; refer: We defer questions of this kind to the president.
- defibered — (of food) having little or no natural fiber, typically as the result of commercial refining or processing.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- 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.
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- defrizzed — Simple past tense and past participle of defrizz.
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- denitrify — to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
- densifier — something that makes things more dense
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- devitrify — to change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state
- 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.
- diffusers — Plural form of diffuser.
- 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.
- disfigure — to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- disforest — To disafforest.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- 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.
- diversify — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- dorsiflex — Bend (something, typically the hand or foot ) dorsally or toward its upper surface.
- draw fire — If you draw fire for something that you have done, you cause people to criticize you or attack you because of it.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- drift ice — detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.
- 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.
- driftless — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- driftnets — Plural form of driftnet.
- drip feed — intravenous feeding.
- drip-feed — intravenous feeding.
- drive fit — assembly of two tightly fitting parts, as a hub on a shaft, made by a press or the like.
- drive off — vehicle: pull out, move off
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- efavirenz — a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used with other medications to treat HIV infection in patients who have or do not have AIDS.
- electrify — Charge with electricity; pass an electric current through.
- enforcing — Present participle of enforce.
- eruciform — Shaped like a caterpillar.
- escoffier — (Georges) Auguste (oɡyst). 1846–1935, French chef at the Savoy Hotel, London (1890–99)