14-letter words containing f, e, n
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
- de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- defect density — (programming) The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
- 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
- defence forces — the armed services of a country
- 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.
- 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
- definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- definitiveness — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- 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
- despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
- 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.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
- 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.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- disidentifying — Present participle of disidentify.
- 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.
- do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.