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14-letter words containing d, e, a, l, i, f

  • final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
  • flinders grass — a drought-resistant pasture grass, Iseilema membranacea, native to inland regions of Australia and used as fodder.
  • flinders range — a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3900 feet (1190 meters).
  • 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.
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • football field — ground where soccer is played
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • frilled lizard — a medium-sized Australian lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingi, having a large, cloaklike flap of skin on the neck that stiffens during courtship or threat displays, forming a wide ruff.
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • 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.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
  • height of land — a watershed
  • indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
  • indie landfill — a derogatory term for indie music considered to be mediocre
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • 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.
  • 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
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • 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.
  • meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
  • melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • non-affiliated — not associated with a particular group, organization, etc
  • non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • 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.
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • rank-and-filer — a member of the rank and file.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
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