11-letter words containing fe
- defensative — a thing that offers protection or defence, esp a dressing, etc, that protects against infection or injury
- defenseless — If someone or something is defenseless, they are weak and unable to defend themselves properly.
- defensively — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
- deferential — Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful towards someone else.
- defervesced — to undergo defervescence.
- defeudalize — to reverse the process of feudalization
- dereference — Obtain from (a pointer) the address of a data item held in another location.
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- differences — Plural form of difference.
- differentia — the character or attribute by which one species is distinguished from all others of the same genus.
- differently — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- disaffected — discontented and disloyal, as toward the government or toward authority.
- disfeatured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfeature.
- disinfected — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disinfested — Simple past tense and past participle of disinfest.
- dobbs ferry — a town in SE New York.
- dorsiferous — borne on the back, as the sori on most ferns.
- double life — If you say that someone is living a double life, you mean that they lead two separate and very different lives, and they appear to be a different person in each.
- drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
- duffel coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
- dunfermline — an administrative district in E Scotland, in the Fife region. 120 sq. mi. (311 sq. km).
- ebola fever — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- ecofeminism — A philosophical and political movement that combines ecological concerns with feminist ones, regarding both as resulting from male domination of society.
- ecofeminist — One who subscribes to ecofeminism.
- edge effect — the tendency toward greater variety and density of plant and animal populations in an ecotone.
- effectively — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectivity — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectivley — Misspelling of effectively.
- effectually — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effectuated — to bring about; effect.
- effectuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of effectuate.
- effeminated — (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy.
- effeminized — to make effeminate.
- effervesced — Simple past tense and past participle of effervesce.
- effervesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of effervesce.
- enfeoffment — (law, common law) The act or process of transferring possession and ownership of an estate in land.
- family life — life with one's family; the part of one's life concerned with one's family
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- fearfulness — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feather key — a rectangular key connecting the keyways of a shaft and a hub of a gear, pulley, etc., fastened in one keyway and free to slide in the other so that the hub can drive or be driven by the shaft at various positions along it.
- feather rot — a viral disease of birds that causes the feathers to become brittle and break off and the beak and claws to become soft.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.