14-letter words containing d, e, f, t, l
- fiddler beetle — a black scarab beetle, Eupoecila australasiae, having markings resembling a violin.
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
- 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).
- firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
- firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flame retarder — a material that, while not incombustible, does not itself maintain combustion without an external heat source and therefore retards the spread of fire
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- 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.
- 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.
- frenkel defect — a crystal defect in which a lattice ion has moved to an interstitial position leaving a vacant lattice site
- 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.
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- 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
- hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- keep the field — to continue activity, as in games or military operations
- 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.
- lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
- 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 president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
- 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.