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

  • defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • demand feeding — the practice of feeding a baby whenever it seems to be hungry, rather than at set intervals
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • different than — different from
  • differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
  • differentiated — Recognize or ascertain what makes (someone or something) different.
  • differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
  • differentiator — a person or thing that differentiates.
  • diffie-hellman — (cryptography)   A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
  • disaffiliation — The termination of an affiliation; the act of ceasing to be associated with something.
  • disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
  • disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
  • disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • drop an f-bomb — to use the word fuck in a situation where it will cause great offence
  • duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • dwarf fan palm — a small palm, Chamaedorea elegans, native to Central America, having a reedlike stem and long, pointed leaflets, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
  • fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
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