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14-letter words containing f, a, d

  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
  • compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
  • 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.
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • daffadowndilly — a daffodil
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
  • deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • 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
  • 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.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • 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.
  • demand feeding — the practice of feeding a baby whenever it seems to be hungry, rather than at set intervals
  • 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
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • different than — different from
  • differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
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