9-letter words containing fe
- preferred — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- professed — avowed; acknowledged.
- professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- proffered — to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
- pufendorf — Samuel von [zah-moo-uh l fuh n] /ˈzɑ mu əl fən/ (Show IPA), ("Severinus de Monzambano") 1632–94, German jurist and historian.
- puffed up — swollen
- puffed-up — feeling self-important; arrogant; pompous.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- re-offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
- real life — existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
- real-life — existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
- rechauffe — a warmed-up dish of food.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- refectory — a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.
- referable — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- reference — pointer
- referenda — the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body, head of state, etc., to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. Compare initiative (def 4a).
- referring — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- safe area — an area near a combat zone that is maintained as being free from military attack.
- safe mode — (operating system) An alternative way to start Microsoft Windows such that only a minimal set of software components (drivers and background processes) are loaded, making it easier to diagnose problems. Safe mode loads a standard low resolution video driver and does not support connection to the Internet. Windows will sometimes restart in safe mode automatically following a crash. All Windows versions except Windows 3.1 can be started in safe mode, usually by holding the Ctrl or F8 key while the computer is restarting. To start Windows NT in safe mode you need to edit C:\boot.ini. Once the problem is fixed you need to restart Windows normally to load all the installed components.
- safe seat — In politics, a safe seat is an area in which the candidate from one particular party nearly always wins by a large number of votes.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- seed fern — any of various plants of the order Lyginopteridales (or Cycadofilicales), known only as fossils, having fernlike leaves and reproducing by means of seeds.
- self-feed — to provide a supply of food to (animals) so as to allow them to eat as much and as often as they want. Compare hand-feed (def 1).
- sheet-fed — (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.
- sinn fein — a political organization in Ireland, founded about 1905, advocating the complete political separation from Great Britain of a unified Ireland.
- slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
- solfeggio — a vocal exercise in which the sol-fa syllables are used.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- spoon-fed — fed with a spoon.
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- stiffened — to make stiff.
- stiffener — a person or thing that stiffens.
- strifeful — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- subinfeud — a grant by a feudal tenant of land to a further tenant
- subwoofer — a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies, generally below 125 Hz.
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- supersafe — exceptionally safe
- superwife — a highly accomplished wife
- surfeited — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- sutcliffe — Herbert. 1894–1978, English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire; scorer of 149 centuries and 1000 runs in a season 24 times
- tafelwein — German table wine
- take life — to kill
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.