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14-letter words containing d, e, o, f, t, r

  • fort-de-france — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • forward market — future commodities trading
  • founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • 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.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • line of credit — credit line (def 2).
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • non-fragmented — reduced to fragments.
  • non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
  • off the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • off the record — making or affording a record.
  • off-the-record — not for publication; not to be quoted: a candidate's off-the-record remarks to reporters.
  • offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
  • order of merit — an order conferred on civilians and servicemen for eminence in any field
  • out from under — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
  • over-confident — too confident.
  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
  • terms of trade — the ratio of export prices to import prices. It measures a nation's trading position, which improves when export prices rise faster or fall slower than import prices
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