9-letter words containing fe
- confessed — You use confessed to describe someone who openly admits that they have a particular fault or have done something wrong.
- confesser — Alternative form of confessor.
- confesses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confess.
- confessio — (legal) A confession; A defense of one's faith, or a confession of guilt.
- confessor — A confessor is a priest who hears a person's confession.
- coniferin — a grayish-white, water-soluble powder, C 16 H 22 O 8 ⋅2H 2 O, obtained from the cambium of coniferous trees and from asparagus: used chiefly in the manufacture of vanillin.
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- crucifers — Plural form of crucifer.
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- data feed — (data, architecture) Some process for transferring data from one system to another in a predetermined form.
- deafening — A deafening noise is a very loud noise.
- debriefed — Simple past tense and past participle of debrief.
- debriefer — a person who debriefs or creates a report after an assignment or an incident
- deer 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
- defeasing — to defeat or annul (a contract, deed, etc.).
- defeating — Present participle of defeat.
- defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
- defeatist — A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
- defeature — to blemish or disfigure (a person or thing)
- defecated — Simple past tense and past participle of defecate.
- defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defecting — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- defencing — defense.
- defendant — A defendant is a person who has been accused of breaking the law and is being tried in court.
- defenders — Plural form of defender.
- defending — making a defence
- defensins — Plural form of defensin.
- defensive — You use defensive to describe things that are intended to protect someone or something.
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- deferable — capable of being deferred or postponed: a deferrable project.
- deference — Deference is a polite and respectful attitude towards someone, especially because they have an important position.
- deferents — Plural form of deferent.
- deferment — Deferment means arranging for something to happen at a later date.
- deferrals — Plural form of deferral.
- deferrers — Plural form of deferrer.
- deferring — to submit for decision; refer: We defer questions of this kind to the president.
- different — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- differeth — Archaic third-person singular form of differ.
- differing — to disagree in opinion, belief, etc.; be at variance; disagree (often followed by with or from): His business partner always differs with him.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disinfest — to rid of insects, rodents, etc.
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- distaffer — a woman, especially in a field or place usually or generally dominated by men: the first distaffer to have a seat on the stock exchange.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.