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14-letter words containing d, a, t, f, l

  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
  • football field — ground where soccer is played
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • front-end load — the sales commission and other fees taken out of the first year's payment under a contractual plan for purchasing shares of a mutual fund (front-end load fund) over a period of years.
  • fully-featured — having a full range of features or functions
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • half-heartedly — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
  • indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
  • lattice defect — defect (def 3).
  • lead the field — If you say that someone leads the field in a particular activity, you mean that they are better, more active, or more successful than everyone else who is involved in it.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • lift attendant — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
  • lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
  • magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
  • main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell
  • mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
  • non-affiliated — not associated with a particular group, organization, etc
  • non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
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