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14-letter words containing f, d, t

  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
  • partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
  • refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • saturated fats — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • 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-collected — having or showing self-control; composed; self-possessed.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-contented — contented with what one is or has
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-dedicated — wholly committed to something, as to an ideal, political cause, or personal goal: a dedicated artist.
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
  • self-exploited — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-inflicted — inflicted by oneself upon oneself: a self-inflicted wound.
  • self-initiated — initiated or begun by oneself.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • self-satisfied — feeling or showing satisfaction with oneself.
  • 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.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
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