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15-letter words containing d, i, s, f

  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
  • disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
  • disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • distastefulness — The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
  • distressfulness — The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
  • distrustfulness — The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
  • disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • doctor's office — doctor's surgery
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • fair and square — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
  • family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
  • fashion-forward — relating to, anticipating, or reflecting the most up-to-date fashion trends
  • fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
  • featherstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of featherstitch.
  • feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
  • ferrous sulfide — a dark or black metallic crystalline compound, FeS, insoluble in water, soluble in acids, used in ceramics and to generate hydrogen sulfide.
  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • field intensity — the vector sum of all forces exerted by a field on a unit mass, unit charge, unit magnetic pole, etc., at a given point within the field.
  • field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
  • fiesta de toros — a bullfight; corrida.
  • fifth dimension — a theoretical dimension beyond or in addition to a fourth dimension.
  • fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • find one's feet — to become capable or confident, as in a new job
  • finders keepers — whoever finds something has the right to keep it
  • first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
  • first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
  • first world war — World War I.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
  • fit as a fiddle — a musical instrument of the viol family.
  • fixed satellite — a satellite in a geostationary orbit
  • fixed-do system — a system of solmization in which the syllable do is always C, regardless of the key.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • flinders island — an island off the coast of NE Tasmania: the largest of the Furneaux Islands. Pop: 850 (2004 est). Area: 2077 sq km (802 sq miles)
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