9-letter words starting with def
- defaecate — Alt form defecate.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- defaulted — failure to act; inaction or neglect: They lost their best client by sheer default.
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- 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.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- defibered — (of food) having little or no natural fiber, typically as the result of commercial refining or processing.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- deficient — If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
- defiladed — Simple past tense and past participle of defilade.
- defilades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defilade.
- definable — Something that is definable can be described or identified.
- definably — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- definatly — Misspelling of definitely.
- definetly — Misspelling of definitely.
- definiens — the word or words used to define or give an account of the meaning of another word, as in a dictionary entry
- definiton — Misspelling of definition.
- deflating — to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon): They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- defleaing — Present participle of deflea.
- deflected — curved or bent downward.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- deflexion — deflection
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