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14-letter words containing f, e, a

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • diffie-hellman — (cryptography)   A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • 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.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • 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.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
  • 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
  • dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
  • earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
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