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14-letter words containing r, f, i, d, t

  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • electric field — a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force
  • 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
  • fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • 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.
  • feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
  • 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
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • 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.
  • fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
  • fiddler beetle — a black scarab beetle, Eupoecila australasiae, having markings resembling a violin.
  • fidget spinner — a small toy comprising two or three prongs arranged around a central bearing, designed to be spun by the fingers as means of improving concentration or relieving stress
  • field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • fiery-tempered — easily angered
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
  • fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.
  • fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • first and last — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
  • first division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the best records at a particular time (opposed to second division).
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • first-aid post — the place at an event where people can go for medical treatment if they become ill or are injured
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • florida strait — a strait between Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas, connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.
  • florida-strait — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • food rationing — the practice of having a fixed allowance of food, esp a statutory one for civilians in time of scarcity or soldiers in time of war
  • 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.
  • foreordination — previous ordination or appointment.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • 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.
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