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15-letter words containing d, e, i, f, r, n

  • interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
  • man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
  • marie de france — flourished 12th century, French poet in England.
  • nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
  • odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • over-confidence — too confident.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
  • retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
  • rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-interested — If you describe someone as self-interested, you disapprove of them because they always want to do what is best for themselves rather than for other people.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • time difference — the difference in clock time between two or more different time zones
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