9-letter words containing fe
- feudalize — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
- feudatory — a person who holds lands by feudal tenure; a feudal vassal.
- feuerbach — Ludwig Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s,, an-;; German ahn-drey-ahs] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs,, æn-;; German ɑnˈdreɪ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1804–72, German philosopher.
- feuillant — a member of a club formed in 1791 by Lafayette advocating a limited constitutional monarchy: forced to disband in 1792 as the revolution became more violent and antimonarchical
- feuilleté — puff pastry
- feverfews — Plural form of feverfew.
- feverroot — horse gentian.
- feverweed — any plant belonging to the genus Eryngium, of the parsley family, especially E. foetidum, of the West Indies, or E. campestre, of Europe.
- feverwort — horse gentian.
- fife rail — a rail surrounding or next to the mast of a sailing vessel for use in holding the pins to which some of the running rigging is belayed.
- fifeshire — Also called Fifeshire [fahyf-sheer, -sher] /ˈfaɪf ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in E Scotland.
- flat feet — feet affected by a condition in which the entire sole of the foot is able to touch the ground because of flattening of the instep arch
- fog fever — an acute respiratory disease of cattle, with a high mortality, that can occur after grazing fog
- forfeited — a fine; penalty.
- forfeiter — One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
- forfended — Simple past tense and past participle of forfend.
- form feed — (character) (FF, Control-L, ASCII 12) The character used to start a new page on a printer. This is done by "feeding" a new page (or "form") through the printer.
- from life — from a living model
- goffering — an ornamental plaiting used for frills and borders, as on women's caps.
- good life — a life abounding in material comforts and luxuries.
- goodfella — a gangster, esp one in the Mafia
- grand feu — a firing of ceramics at a high temperature.
- green fee — a fee paid by golfers in order to play on a golf course.
- half-life — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
- hand-feed — Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.
- 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
- haushofer — Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.
- hay fever — a type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract, affecting susceptible persons usually during the summer, caused by pollen of ragweed and certain other plants.
- heartfelt — deeply or sincerely felt: heartfelt sympathy.
- high life — You use the high life to refer to an exciting and luxurious way of living that involves a great deal of entertainment, going to parties, and eating good food.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- home life — a person's life at home; private life
- hot fence — an electric fence surrounding a farm
- housewife — Sometimes Offensive. a married woman who manages her own household, especially as her principal occupation.
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- imperfect — not perfect; lacking completeness: imperfect knowledge.
- in effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- infectant — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- infecting — Present participle of infect.
- infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- infective — infectious.
- infectors — Plural form of infector.
- inferable — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inference — the act or process of inferring.
- inferiors — Plural form of inferior.
- inferiour — Obsolete spelling of inferior.
- inferrers — Plural form of inferrer.
- inferring — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- infertile — not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.