14-letter words containing e, n, f, a, t
- canton flannel — cotton flannel
- center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
- centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- certifications — Plural form of certification.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- 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.
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- cotton flannel — a plain-weave or twill-weave fabric with nap on one side only
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- 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
- 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.
- decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- 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
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- 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
- definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- different than — different from
- differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- differentiated — Recognize or ascertain what makes (someone or something) different.
- differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
- differentiator — a person or thing that differentiates.
- dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree