11-letter words containing f, o, n
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dance floor — In a restaurant or night club, the dance floor is the area where people can dance.
- danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
- dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
- deep-frozen — to quick-freeze (food).
- defaecation — Alt form defecation.
- defalcation — the amount embezzled
- defamations — Plural form of defamation.
- defiliation — the denial of or lack of a male child
- definitions — the formal statement of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase, idiom, etc., as found in dictionaries. An online dictionary resource, such as Dictionary.com, can give users direct, immediate access to the definitions of a term, allowing them to compare definitions from various dictionaries and stay up to date with an ever-expanding vocabulary.
- deflections — Plural form of deflection.
- defloration — the act of deflowering
- deflowering — Present participle of deflower.
- defoliating — Present participle of defoliate.
- defoliation — to strip (a tree, bush, etc.) of leaves.
- deforcement — (legal) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
- deforesting — Present participle of deforest.
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
- deification — If you talk about the deification of someone or something, you mean that they are regarded with very great respect and are not criticized at all.
- detoxifying — Present participle of detoxify.
- dian fossey — Dian [dahy-an] /daɪˈæn/ (Show IPA), 1932–85, U.S. zoologist: expert on great apes.
- diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- diffusional — Of or pertaining to diffusion.
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
- disfunction — dysfunction.
- disinformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disinform.
- dobsonflies — Plural form of dobsonfly.
- dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
- dog fouling — the offence of being in charge of a dog and failing to remove the faeces after it defecates in a public place
- dogfighting — a violent fight between dogs.
- dolefulness — The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
- dolphinfish — dolphin (def 2).
- downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
- draftswoman — a woman employed in making mechanical drawings.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumfounding — Present participle of dumfound.
- dysfunction — Medicine/Medical. malfunctioning, as of an organ or structure of the body.
- ecofeminism — A philosophical and political movement that combines ecological concerns with feminist ones, regarding both as resulting from male domination of society.
- ecofeminist — One who subscribes to ecofeminism.
- ecofriendly — Alternative spelling of eco-friendly.
- edification — an act of edifying.
- ego surfing — the act of searching for your own name on the internet
- eichendorff — Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists
- end for end — with the ends, or the position, reversed
- end of line — (character) (EOL) Synonym for newline, derived perhaps from the original CDC 6600 Pascal. The abbreviation "EOL" is now rare, but widely recognised and occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example entry under BNF. Out of context this would probably be (deliberately) ambiguous because different systems used different (combinations of) characters to mark the end of a line. Unix uses a line feed; DOS uses carriage return, line feed (CRLF) and the Macintosh uses carriage return. See also EOF.