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14-letter words containing e, f, d

  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
  • checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • childbed fever — puerperal fever.
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • city of dundee — a council area in E Scotland. Pop: 143 090 (2003 est). Area: 65 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
  • code of ethics — an agreement on ethical standards for a profession or business
  • code of honour — the standards of behaviour regarded as proper
  • coffee grinder — A coffee grinder is a machine for grinding coffee beans.
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • coffee-colored — having the medium-brown color of coffee mixed with cream or milk; moderately brown.
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
  • coup de foudre — a sudden and amazing action or event
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • cut sheet feed — the automatic movement of single sheets of paper through the platen of the printer
  • cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
  • cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
  • daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
  • de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
  • dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
  • death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
  • deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
  • deer fly fever — tularemia.
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • defect density — (programming)   The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • defeminization — (in a developing organism) the process in which full development into a female of the species is prevented because of a male developmental characteristic
  • defence forces — the armed services of a country
  • defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
  • defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • deferred share — a share of stock on which a dividend is not paid until some fixed date or until some conditional event.
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
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