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14-letter words containing d, f

  • free and clear — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • free as a bird — really free
  • freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
  • freedom riders — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
  • freehandedness — The quality or state of being freehanded.
  • french academy — an association of 40 scholars and men and women of letters, established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu and devoted chiefly to preserving the purity of the French language and establishing standards of proper usage.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • frenkel defect — a crystal defect in which a lattice ion has moved to an interstitial position leaving a vacant lattice site
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • freshness date — the last date, usually specified on the label or packaging, that a food, as bread, is considered fresh, although it may be sold, ordinarily at reduced prices, or eaten after that date.
  • 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.
  • friday prayers — the congregational prayers observed by Muslims every Friday
  • fridge-freezer — a domestic electrical appliance which comprises a fridge and a freezer compartment
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • friendlessness — The state or condition of being friendless; lack of friends.
  • 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.
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • 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.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • 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.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • furfuraldehyde — a colorless, oily liquid, C 5 H 4 O 2 , having an aromatic odor, obtained from bran, sugar, wood, corncobs, or the like, by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics and as a solvent in the refining of lubricating oils.
  • fused sentence — a written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
  • garden of eden — Eden1
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • 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.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • grid reference — geographical co-ordinates
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
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