9-letter words containing f, t
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- defendant — A defendant is a person who has been accused of breaking the law and is being tried in court.
- deferents — Plural form of deferent.
- deferment — Deferment means arranging for something to happen at a later date.
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- deficient — If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
- definatly — Misspelling of definitely.
- definetly — Misspelling of definitely.
- definiton — Misspelling of definition.
- deflating — to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon): They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
- 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.
- deflected — curved or bent downward.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
- demystify — If you demystify something, you make it easier to understand by giving a clear explanation of it.
- demythify — to remove the mythical characteristics from (a person)
- denitrify — to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- deskfasts — Plural form of deskfast.
- devitrify — to change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state
- 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.
- 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.
- diffusate — (in dialysis) the solution or the crystalline material that passes into it through the semipermeable membrane; dialyzate.
- 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)
- 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.
- discomfit — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- disfluent — lacking fluency in speech
- disforest — To disafforest.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disinfest — to rid of insects, rodents, etc.
- 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 .
- do out of — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- dog shift — graveyard shift.