14-letter words containing e, l, d, r, s
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- dressing glass — a small, adjustable mirror designed to stand on a dressing table.
- dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- drill sergeant — military officer who drills recruits
- driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
- dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
- dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
- e-mail address — electronic mail address
- earless lizard — any of several slender iguanid lizards of the genus Holbrookia, of the western U.S. and Mexico, that have no external ear opening.
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- enclosed order — a Christian religious order that does not permit its members to go into the outside world
- engler degrees — a scale of measurement of viscosity based on the ratio of the time taken by a particular liquid to flow through a standard orifice to the time taken by water to flow through the same orifice
- exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
- 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
- faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- field exercise — a military exercise in which mock warfare is staged between two forces.
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flinders grass — a drought-resistant pasture grass, Iseilema membranacea, native to inland regions of Australia and used as fodder.
- flinders range — a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3900 feet (1190 meters).
- fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- friendlessness — The state or condition of being friendless; lack of friends.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- genderlessness — The state or condition of being genderless; lack of gender.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.