9-Letter Words Containing: D,H,I,F

• An area or region governed by a chief.

• A society larger than a tribe but smaller or simpler than a state.

• flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks

• large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night

• medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific

• bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

• extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned

• American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer

• small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings

• a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through

• a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds

• a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one

• a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle

• a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay