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14-letter words containing f, l, o, d, t

  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • 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.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • line of credit — credit line (def 2).
  • lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
  • lost for words — If someone is lost for words, they cannot think of anything to say, especially because they are very surprised by something.
  • main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell
  • non-affiliated — not associated with a particular group, organization, etc
  • non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
  • old-field colt — catch-colt (def 2).
  • opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-collected — having or showing self-control; composed; self-possessed.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-contented — contented with what one is or has
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-exploited — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • sodium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, soaps, detergents, glass, and ceramic glazes.
  • sodium sulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 3 , used chiefly as a food preservative, as a bleaching agent, and as a developer in photography.
  • solidification — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
  • stand-off half — a player who acts as a link between his scrum half and three-quarter backs
  • sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
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