9-letter words containing en
- exoenzyme — An enzyme that acts outside the cell that produces it.
- exogenous — Of, relating to, or developing from external factors.
- expedient — (of an action) Convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral.
- expencive — Archaic form of expensive.
- expending — Present participle of expend.
- expensing — Present participle of expense.
- expensive — Costing a lot of money.
- experient — A person who experiences something.
- exponents — Plural form of exponent.
- extendant — (in heraldry) with wings spread
- extenders — Plural form of extender.
- extending — Present participle of extend.
- extensile — Capable of being stretched out or protruded.
- extension — A part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it; a continuation.
- extensity — (uncountable) The state of being extensive or of having extension.
- extensive — Covering or affecting a large area.
- extensors — Plural form of extensor.
- extention — Misspelling of extension.
- extenuate — Make (guilt or an offense) seem less serious or more forgivable.
- extolment — (obsolete) praise.
- eyeopener — Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
- fair rent — (in Britain) the rent for a private tenancy, fixed and registered by a rent officer, and based on the size, condition, and usefulness of the property, but not its scarcity value
- fairhaven — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- farnesene — (chemistry) Any of six sesquiterpenes, one of which is responsible for the green colour of apples.
- fasteners — Plural form of fastener.
- fastening — something that fastens, as a lock or clasp.
- fatiscent — having cracks or chinks
- fatten up — To fatten up an animal or person means to make them fatter, by forcing or encouraging them to eat more food.
- fatteners — Plural form of fattener.
- fattening — to make fat.
- feculence — full of dregs or fecal matter; foul, turbid, or muddy.
- feculency — an impurity
- fellaheen — a native peasant or laborer in Egypt, Syria, etc.
- fellowmen — another member of the human race, especially a kindred human being: Don't deny full recognition to your fellowmen.
- fenagling — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- fence off — If you fence off an area of land, you build a fence round it.
- fence-off — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- fenceless — Without a fence; unfenced.
- fencelike — Resembling a fence (artificial barrier) or some aspect of one.
- fencepost — A post which helps hold up a fence.
- fencerows — Plural form of fencerow.
- fenestral — (archaeology) A casement or window sash closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.
- feng shui — Feng shui is a Chinese art which is based on the belief that the way you arrange things within a building, and within the rooms of that building, can affect aspects of your life such as how happy and successful you are.
- fenugreek — a plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, of the legume family, indigenous to western Asia, but extensively cultivated elsewhere, chiefly for forage and for its mucilaginous seeds, which are used in medicine.
- feoffment — (legal) The grant of a feud or fee.
- fermented — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- fermenter — A container in which fermentation takes place.
- fermentor — The vessel in which fermentation takes place.
- ferrocene — Also called dicyclopentadienyliron. an orange, crystalline, water-insoluble coordination compound, (C 5 H 5) 2 Fe, having a camphorlike odor: used chiefly as an antiknock agent for gasoline and as a catalyst. Compare metallocene.