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14-letter words containing i, n, d, f, e, r

  • feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
  • feeding frenzy — Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone especially by the media.
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
  • 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.
  • fidei defensor — Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns.
  • fidget spinner — a small toy comprising two or three prongs arranged around a central bearing, designed to be spun by the fingers as means of improving concentration or relieving stress
  • field of honor — the scene of a battle or duel.
  • field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • finger reading — the reading of Braille by means of the fingertips.
  • fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • flinders grass — a drought-resistant pasture grass, Iseilema membranacea, native to inland regions of Australia and used as fodder.
  • flinders range — a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3900 feet (1190 meters).
  • 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.
  • forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
  • foreordination — previous ordination or appointment.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • friendlessness — The state or condition of being friendless; lack of friends.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • grid reference — geographical co-ordinates
  • 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
  • indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • indifferentism — systematic indifference.
  • indifferentist — An advocate of indifferentism.
  • indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • 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.
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
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