14-letter words containing f, r, e, d
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- 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.
- date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
- dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
- deer fly fever — tularemia.
- defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- defence forces — the armed services of a country
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- deferred share — a share of stock on which a dividend is not paid until some fixed date or until some conditional event.
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- 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.
- diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
- diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
- doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- drag your feet — dawdle
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.