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15-letter words containing f, e, d, i

  • distrustfulness — The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • doctor's office — doctor's surgery
  • drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
  • extended family — relatives
  • faint-heartedly — nervously
  • fair and square — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
  • fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • featherstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of featherstitch.
  • federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
  • feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
  • feminine ending — Prosody. an unaccented syllable at the close of a line of poetry, often one that is added to the metrical pattern as an extra syllable.
  • ferric chloride — a compound that in its anhydrous form, FeCl 3 , occurs as a black-brown, water-soluble solid; in its hydrated form, FeCl 3 ⋅xH 2 O, it occurs in orange-yellow, deliquescent crystals: used chiefly in engraving, for deodorizing sewage, as a mordant, and in medicine as an astringent and styptic.
  • ferrous sulfide — a dark or black metallic crystalline compound, FeS, insoluble in water, soluble in acids, used in ceramics and to generate hydrogen sulfide.
  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • feynman diagram — a network of lines that represents a series of emissions and absorptions of elementary particles by other elementary particles, from which the probability of the series can be calculated.
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • field artillery — artillery mobile enough to accompany troops in the field.
  • field chickweed — starry grasswort.
  • field intensity — the vector sum of all forces exerted by a field on a unit mass, unit charge, unit magnetic pole, etc., at a given point within the field.
  • field of honour — the place or scene of a battle or duel, esp of jousting tournaments in medieval times
  • field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • fiesta de toros — a bullfight; corrida.
  • fifth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, providing chiefly that no person be required to testify against himself or herself in a criminal case and that no person be subjected to a second trial for an offense for which he or she has been duly tried previously.
  • fifth dimension — a theoretical dimension beyond or in addition to a fourth dimension.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • find one's feet — to become capable or confident, as in a new job
  • finders keepers — whoever finds something has the right to keep it
  • fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
  • fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
  • fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
  • fire-engine red — a very bright red color.
  • first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
  • first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • fit as a fiddle — a musical instrument of the viol family.
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