9-letter words containing i, n, f, o
- confusing — Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- confuting — Present participle of confute.
- coniferin — a grayish-white, water-soluble powder, C 16 H 22 O 8 ⋅2H 2 O, obtained from the cambium of coniferous trees and from asparagus: used chiefly in the manufacture of vanillin.
- cornfield — A cornfield is a field in which corn is being grown.
- cornified — Converted into horn; horny.
- corniform — shaped like a horn
- countrify — to make countrified.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- definiton — Misspelling of definition.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- deflexion — deflection
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defogging — to remove the fog or moisture from (a car window, mirror, etc.).
- 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.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- downfield — In or to a position nearer to the opponents' end of a field.
- downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- drain off — liquid: remove
- effection — Creation; a doing.
- effluxion — outward flow, as of water.
- effusions — the act of effusing or pouring forth.
- elfinwood — Krummholz.
- enfolding — Present participle of enfold.
- enforcing — Present participle of enforce.
- exfoliant — A cosmetic product designed to remove dead cells from the surface of the skin.
- factional — of a faction or factions.
- factor in — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factoring — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- faggoting — a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
- falcation — the state of being falcate, a falcate appendage
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- falconine — any of several birds of prey of the family Falconidae, especially of the genus Falco, usually distinguished by long, pointed wings, a hooked beak with a toothlike notch on each side of the upper bill, and swift, agile flight, typically diving to seize prey: some falcon species are close to extinction.
- falconoid — an antioxidant compound found in tea and thought to resist cancer
- fall into — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallopian — Alternative form of Fallopian.
- fallowing — (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
- far point — the point farthest from the eye at which an object is clearly focused on the retina when accommodation of the eye is completely relaxed.
- far-point — the point farthest from the eye at which an object is clearly focused on the retina when accommodation of the eye is completely relaxed.
- farrowing — a litter of pigs.
- fashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of fashion.
- fashioner — a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
- fathoming — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- favouring — Present participle of favour.
- fellation — oral stimulation of the penis, especially to orgasm.