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14-letter words containing f, a, n, e, d

  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-initiated — initiated or begun by oneself.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
  • shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
  • stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
  • stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
  • stuffed animal — soft toy
  • subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
  • traffic warden — officer who monitors parking, etc.
  • tyndall effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
  • tyndall-effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
  • uncertificated — a document serving as evidence or as written testimony, as of status, qualifications, privileges, or the truth of something.
  • unconfederated — not allied to a confederation or joined in confederacy
  • underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
  • underqualified — having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • undulant fever — brucellosis.
  • unidentifiable — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  • unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
  • unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • user-definable — (of a facility on a computer) that can be defined or varied by the user
  • welfare island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
  • well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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