9-letter words containing i, a, f
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- defiladed — Simple past tense and past participle of defilade.
- defilades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defilade.
- definable — Something that is definable can be described or identified.
- definably — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- definatly — Misspelling of definitely.
- 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.
- defleaing — Present participle of deflea.
- 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.
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- 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.
- 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.
- disaffirm — to deny; contradict.
- disfavors — Plural form of disfavor.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- 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 .
- drag lift — a lift which drags skiers up to the top of the slope
- draglifts — Plural form of draglift.
- drain off — liquid: remove
- 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.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- edificial — a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
- efavirenz — a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used with other medications to treat HIV infection in patients who have or do not have AIDS.
- effingham — a town in central Illinois.
- effluvial — a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
- el faiyûm — a city in N Egypt: a site of towns going back at least to the 12th dynasty. Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- enfiladed — Simple past tense and past participle of enfilade.
- epifaunal — relating to epifauna
- equifinal — That have the same outcome, end or result.
- exfoliant — A cosmetic product designed to remove dead cells from the surface of the skin.
- exfoliate — (of a material) come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers.
- fabianism — the theories of economic and social reform advocated by the Fabian Society.
- fabricant — a maker or manufacturer.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.