14-letter words containing f, r, e, t, a, d
- dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
- fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
- faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flame retarder — a material that, while not incombustible, does not itself maintain combustion without an external heat source and therefore retards the spread of fire
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- fore-and-after — Nautical. a sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig. a beam running fore and aft across a hatchway to support hatch covers laid athwart the hatchway. a vessel having a sharp stern; a double ender.
- foreordination — previous ordination or appointment.
- forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- fort-de-france — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- forward market — future commodities trading
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- freshness date — the last date, usually specified on the label or packaging, that a food, as bread, is considered fresh, although it may be sold, ordinarily at reduced prices, or eaten after that date.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- 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.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- fully-featured — having a full range of features or functions
- good afternoon — greeting
- graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- half-heartedly — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- internet-draft — (I-D) A draft working document of the Internet Engineering Task Force, its Areas, and its Working Groups. As the name implies, Internet-Drafts are purely discussion documents with no formal status. They are valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. Very often, an I-D is a precursor to a Request For Comments.