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14-letter words containing d, f

  • disaffiliation — The termination of an affiliation; the act of ceasing to be associated with something.
  • disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
  • disidentifying — Present participle of disidentify.
  • disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
  • disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
  • do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
  • do the needful — to perform a necessary task
  • do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
  • drilling fluid — a fluid used in the process of drilling bore holes and oil wells, for instance drilling mud, water, and compressed air amongst others
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • drop an f-bomb — to use the word fuck in a situation where it will cause great offence
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
  • duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • dwarf fan palm — a small palm, Chamaedorea elegans, native to Central America, having a reedlike stem and long, pointed leaflets, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • electric field — a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
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