14-letter words containing f, i, n, d
- 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.
- disaffiliation — The termination of an affiliation; the act of ceasing to be associated with something.
- disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- 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.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- 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.
- disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- 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.
- door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
- drafting board — drawing board.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drilling fluid — a fluid used in the process of drilling bore holes and oil wells, for instance drilling mud, water, and compressed air amongst others
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
- fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
- fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.