14-letter words containing f, d, s, e
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- house of study — Beth Midrash.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- indefiniteness — not definite; without fixed or specified limit; unlimited: an indefinite number.
- indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- indifferentism — systematic indifference.
- indifferentist — An advocate of indifferentism.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
- interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
- jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
- killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
- life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
- meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- middle flemish — the Flemish language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
- midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
- midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
- misidentifying — Present participle of misidentify.
- missed'em-five — (operating system, abuse) (Or "SysVile" /sis-vi:l'/) A pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V Unix, generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood. See software bloat, Berzerkeley.
- mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- mouths to feed — family members, dependents
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
- non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- nondiversified — Not diversified.
- of your dreams — If you describe someone or something as the person or thing of your dreams, you mean that you consider them to be ideal or perfect.
- off one's feed — to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
- off one's head — If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.
- one's head off — loudly or excessively
- opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater