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14-letter words containing o, f, d

  • do the needful — to perform a necessary task
  • 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.
  • doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • 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.
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • 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
  • drop an f-bomb — to use the word fuck in a situation where it will cause great offence
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • 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.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
  • fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • fd and c color — any of the synthetic pigments and dyes that are approved by the FDA for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.
  • 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.
  • feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • feel compelled — If you feel compelled to do something, you feel that you must do it, because it is the right thing to do.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • fertile period — the time during a woman's menstrual cycle at which she is most likely to become pregnant, or the equivalent time for an animal
  • 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.
  • fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric field.
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • field of force — the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it
  • field of honor — the scene of a battle or duel.
  • field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
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