14-letter words containing n, f, c
- 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
- de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
- decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
- defect density — (programming) The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
- defence forces — the armed services of a country
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- 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.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
- eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
- electric fence — a fence with an electric current in it, typically used to keep cattle in a field
- electrifyingly — In an electrifying manner.
- 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
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- 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.
- exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
- excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fd and c color — any of the synthetic pigments and dyes that are approved by the FDA for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.