9-letter words containing i, f, d, l
- 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.
- defueling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- designful — full of design or intention
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- devilfish — any manta
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- 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.
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- difflugia — a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- difluence — diffluence.
- 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.
- disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
- disc film — film used in a disc camera.
- disfluent — lacking fluency in speech
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- 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 .
- dolorific — Of or relating to pain.
- dorsiflex — Bend (something, typically the hand or foot ) dorsally or toward its upper surface.
- downfield — In or to a position nearer to the opponents' end of a field.
- drag lift — a lift which drags skiers up to the top of the slope
- draglifts — Plural form of draglift.
- driftbolt — Also called driftpin. a spike having a round shank and used for fastening heavy timbers together.
- driftless — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- dulcified — Sweetened; mollified.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- dutifully — performing the duties expected or required of one; characterized by doing one's duty: a dutiful citizen; a dutiful child.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- edificial — a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
- eightfold — Eight times as great or as numerous.
- elfinwood — Krummholz.
- enfiladed — Simple past tense and past participle of enfilade.
- enfolding — Present participle of enfold.
- factoidal — of or resembling a factoid; (of a piece of writing) comprising facts and factoids
- faddishly — In a faddish way.
- fair deal — the principles of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Harry S Truman, consisting largely of a continuation and development of the principles of the New Deal.
- fair-lead — a pulley block, metal ring, etc. used to guide a line and cause it to run easily without chafing
- fairfield — a city in central California.
- fairyland — the imaginary realm of fairies.
- falconoid — an antioxidant compound found in tea and thought to resist cancer
- fall wind — a strong, cold, downhill wind.