14-letter words containing d, i, n, a, t
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endodontically — according to the practice of endodontics
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- endopeptidases — Plural form of endopeptidase.
- enteric-coated — An enteric-coated tablet is one that is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid, so that it does not dissolve in the stomach but allows release of the medication in the intestine.
- equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
- extension lead — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
- extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
- extraordinaire — Outstanding or remarkable in a particular capacity.
- fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
- 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
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- 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.
- 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
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
- finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.
- first and last — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
- food rationing — the practice of having a fixed allowance of food, esp a statutory one for civilians in time of scarcity or soldiers in time of war
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- foreordination — previous ordination or appointment.
- foundation day — former name of Australia Day.
- foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- 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.