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

  • 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.
  • fidei defensor — Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns.
  • field of honor — the scene of a battle or duel.
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • gregorian mode — church mode.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
  • hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
  • hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
  • hydronephrosis — dilation of the branches and pelvic cavity of the kidney, caused by an accumulation of urine resulting from obstruction of normal outflow.
  • hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
  • hydroxyproline — a nutritionally nonessential amino acid, C 5 H 9 NO 3 , found chiefly in collagen.
  • hypermodernism — a hypermodern approach or theory
  • hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • idiosyncracies — Plural form of idiosyncracy.
  • idiosyncrasies — a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
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