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14-letter words containing o, f

  • 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.
  • earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
  • 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
  • elevator shaft — passage for a lift
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • ergocalciferol — Constituent of vitamin D1 and vitamin D2.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • every so often — now and again
  • 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
  • expose oneself — to display one's sexual organs in public
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • 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
  • fair territory — the area beginning with and including home plate and extending between and including foul lines into which a batter must bat the ball as a prerequisite for a safe hit.
  • fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
  • fall army worm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Spodoptera frugiperda, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in tropical regions of the western hemisphere
  • fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
  • 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.
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
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