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14-letter words containing f, o, t, n

  • counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
  • court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
  • cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • defeminization — (in a developing organism) the process in which full development into a female of the species is prevented because of a male developmental characteristic
  • defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • differentiator — a person or thing that differentiates.
  • 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.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • 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.
  • do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
  • do the needful — to perform a necessary task
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • every so often — now and again
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • 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
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
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