14-letter words containing r, s, f
- crossreference — Alternative form of cross-reference.
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
- defence forces — the armed services of a country
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- deferred share — a share of stock on which a dividend is not paid until some fixed date or until some conditional event.
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
- 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.
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
- 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
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- every so often — now and again
- 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
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- 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
- fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
- fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning