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14-letter words containing d, i, f, r

  • differentiated — Recognize or ascertain what makes (someone or something) different.
  • differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
  • differentiator — a person or thing that differentiates.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
  • disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • 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
  • disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence 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.
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • 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
  • electric field — a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
  • fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
  • fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
  • feeding frenzy — Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone especially by the media.
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • fertile period — the time during a woman's menstrual cycle at which she is most likely to become pregnant, or the equivalent time for an animal
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
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