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15-letter words containing d, e, a, f

  • self-debasement — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
  • self-infatuated — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
  • self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • sheffield plate — sheet copper with a cladding of silver.
  • shield of david — a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.
  • slashdot effect — a temporary surge in the numbers visiting a website and consequent service slowdown or even server crash that sometimes arises as a result of a new link being set up from a more popular website
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
  • stand in awe of — to respect and fear
  • stannic sulfide — a yellowish or brownish, water-insoluble powder, SnS 2 , usually used suspended in lacquer or varnish for gilding and bronzing metals, wood, paper, etc.; mosaic gold.
  • start of header — (character)   (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
  • strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • tar and feather — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • time and a half — a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.
  • to get ahold of — to manage to find, contact, or obtain someone or something
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • trade reference — a reference in which one trader gives his opinion as to the creditworthiness of another trader in the same trade, esp to a supplier
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • tree of sadness — night jasmine (def 1).
  • turn a deaf ear — pretend not to hear
  • unaccounted for — If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.
  • unaccounted-for — not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
  • unsatisfiedness — the state of being unsatisfied
  • unsteadfastness — the condition of being unsteadfast
  • van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
  • waterfall model — (programming)   A software life-cycle or product life-cycle model, described by W. W. Royce in 1970, in which development is supposed to proceed linearly through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing (validation), integration and maintenance. The Waterfall Model is considered old-fashioned or simplistic by proponents of object-oriented design which often uses the spiral model instead. Earlier phases are sometimes called "upstream" and later ones "downstream". Compare: iterative model.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • well-formulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
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