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15-letter words containing f, i, r, e, a

  • defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • denitrification — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
  • desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • differentiating — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
  • differentiation — Biology. the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
  • differentiative — That differentiates, or causes differentiation.
  • differentiators — Plural form of differentiator.
  • diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
  • diffractometric — Relating to diffractometry; measured using a diffractometer.
  • disaster relief — financial or physical help provided to people or areas hit by a disaster
  • disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
  • disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
  • 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.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • facile princeps — an obvious leader
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • faint-heartedly — nervously
  • fair and square — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
  • fairy footsteps — heavy footsteps
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • farm gate price — the price for the sale of farm produce direct from the producer
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • feast or famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
  • feast-or-famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
  • 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.
  • feature article — a feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person
  • federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
  • ferranti f100-l — (processor)   A processor, with 16-bit addressing, registers and data paths and a 1-bit serial ALU. The F100-L could only access 32K of memory (one address bit was used for indirection). It was designed by a British company for the British Military. The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete control bus available for a coprocessor. Any instruction the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern processors, such as the National Semiconductor 32000 series. The disk operating system was written by Alec Cawley.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
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