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14-letter words containing o, n, e, f

  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • defeminization — (in a developing organism) the process in which full development into a female of the species is prevented because of a male developmental characteristic
  • defence forces — the armed services of a country
  • defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
  • 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.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • differentiator — a person or thing that differentiates.
  • diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
  • dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
  • do the needful — to perform a necessary task
  • do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
  • 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.
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • 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.
  • false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
  • false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
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