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14-letter words containing f, e, r, t, d

  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • 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.
  • electric field — a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force
  • fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
  • falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
  • farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
  • feather-legged — cowardly.
  • feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
  • fertile period — the time during a woman's menstrual cycle at which she is most likely to become pregnant, or the equivalent time for an animal
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
  • fiddler beetle — a black scarab beetle, Eupoecila australasiae, having markings resembling a violin.
  • fidget spinner — a small toy comprising two or three prongs arranged around a central bearing, designed to be spun by the fingers as means of improving concentration or relieving stress
  • field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • fiery-tempered — easily angered
  • fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.
  • fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
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