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14-letter words containing d, i, s, f, e

  • 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.
  • 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
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • 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.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • indefiniteness — not definite; without fixed or specified limit; unlimited: an indefinite number.
  • indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • indifferentism — systematic indifference.
  • indifferentist — An advocate of indifferentism.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
  • killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
  • middle flemish — the Flemish language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
  • midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • misidentifying — Present participle of misidentify.
  • missed'em-five — (operating system, abuse)   (Or "SysVile" /sis-vi:l'/) A pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V Unix, generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood. See software bloat, Berzerkeley.
  • mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
  • mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
  • non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
  • nondiversified — Not diversified.
  • opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
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