9-letter words containing n, e, d, f
- foodborne — Transmitted through food.
- footnoted — Simple past tense and past participle of footnote.
- forbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- forelands — Plural form of foreland.
- forenamed — named before; mentioned before in the same writing or speech; aforementioned.
- forfended — Simple past tense and past participle of forfend.
- forwander — to wander far
- foundered — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- foundress — a woman who establishes something, as an institution or religious order; founder.
- foundries — Plural form of foundry.
- free hand — unrestricted freedom or authority: They gave the decorator a free hand.
- free-hand — unrestricted freedom or authority: They gave the decorator a free hand.
- freshened — Simple past tense and past participle of freshen.
- friendful — Full of friendlihood; friendly.
- friending — a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
- friendish — Like, or relating to a friend.
- friesland — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- front end — 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a "back end"). 2. Software that provides an interface to another program "behind" it, which may not be as user-friendly. Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends that interfaced with mainframes.
- front-end — relating to foremost part
- frontside — Denoting a maneuver in surfing and other board sports that is done counterclockwise for a regular rider and clockwise for a goofy rider.
- fundament — the buttocks.
- fundraise — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- funfilled — Full of fun; very entertaining.
- fungicide — a substance or preparation, as a spray or dust, used for destroying fungi.
- funnelled — a cone-shaped utensil with a tube at the apex for conducting liquid or other substance through a small opening, as into a bottle, jug, or the like.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- gardenful — An amount sufficient to fill a garden.
- grand feu — a firing of ceramics at a high temperature.
- half-done — past participle of do1 .
- hand-feed — Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- hard fern — a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- indemnify — to compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred, etc.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infidelic — Religion. a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, especially a Muslim. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kafir (def 2).
- infielder — any of the four defensive players stationed around the infield.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- inflected — to modulate (the voice).
- inflicted — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- infra-red — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infringed — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
- ingrafted — engraft.
- inside of — on the inner side or part of; within: inside the circle; inside the envelope.
- intefadeh — Alternative spelling of intifada.
- interfold — to fold one within another; fold together.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.