14-letter words containing d, i, n, a, t
- 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.
- futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
- git-up-and-git — get-up-and-go.
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
- graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- grease-stained — stained with grease marks
- greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
- grid variation — the angle, at any point on the surface of the earth, between the magnetic and true meridians passing through that point.
- 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.
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
- haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
- hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
- hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- have a mind to — think about doing
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- height of land — a watershed
- hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
- herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
- humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
- humidification — to make humid.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- immoderateness — The quality of being immoderate, lack of moderation or temperance.
- immunodominant — Of or pertaining to the epitope of a molecule that provokes the most intense immune response.
- in a bad light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.