Deficient is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 218 anagrams from letters in deficient (cdeefiint).
1575-85; Latin dēficient- (stem of dēficiēns, present participle of dēficere to fail, run short, lack, weaken), equivalent to dē- de- + fic-, combining form of facere t
Sometimes he is sure she is deficient in understanding, and at others that her temper only is in fault.
Is there something, er, deficient about the type of guy who earns a living saving lives, succoring the sick, abetting the needy?
It is manner in which the literature of all nations is deficient.
He was agreeable, too agreeable; he certainly had not bad manners, but he was deficient in tact.
Not to be deficient in interest, Clennam asked what he might be doing there?
She desired to protect them, and often felt that they could protect her, excelling where she was deficient.
By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.
This view might have been considered rather tame than otherwise, deficient in what landscape painters call “life.”
He might as well say that John Bunyan was deficient in ethical instincts.
Sir John was not, on his side, deficient in attention to his own interests.