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14-letter words containing a, n, d, f, o

  • off one's head — If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.
  • old franconian — the Franconian language before 1100; Frankish.
  • one's head off — loudly or excessively
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
  • safe and sound — unharmed and well
  • saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • solidification — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
  • staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
  • stand-off half — a player who acts as a link between his scrum half and three-quarter backs
  • stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
  • stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
  • strong forward — power forward
  • subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • to windward of — advantageously situated with respect to
  • tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
  • unconfederated — not allied to a confederation or joined in confederacy
  • underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
  • word formation — the formation of words, for example by adding prefixes or suffixes to roots
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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