14-letter words containing f, e, d, o, r
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
- freedom riders — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- front-end load — the sales commission and other fees taken out of the first year's payment under a contractual plan for purchasing shares of a mutual fund (front-end load fund) over a period of years.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- garden of eden — Eden1
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- good afternoon — greeting
- graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- 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.
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- 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.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
- leave for dead — to abandon
- line of credit — credit line (def 2).
- lord of appeal — one of several judges appointed to assist the House of Lords in hearing appeals
- managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
- meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
- medal of honor — The Medal of Honor is a medal that is given to members of the U.S. armed forces who have shown special courage or bravery in battle.
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- newfoundlander — a native or inhabitant of Newfoundland.
- non-fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nondiversified — Not diversified.
- occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
- 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 the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- off the record — making or affording a record.
- off-line world — (jargon) A die-hard nethead term for non-computer-related experience. See also big room.
- off-the-record — not for publication; not to be quoted: a candidate's off-the-record remarks to reporters.
- offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
- order of merit — an order conferred on civilians and servicemen for eminence in any field