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14-letter words containing s, f, e

  • 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.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
  • 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.
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
  • einstein shift — a small displacement towards the red in the spectra, caused by the interaction between the radiation and the gravitational field of a massive body, such as the sun
  • 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
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • english muffin — crumpet
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • every so often — now and again
  • 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.
  • face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • 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.
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • 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
  • false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
  • false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
  • false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • 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
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
  • false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
  • faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
  • farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
  • farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
  • farm-gate sale — the sale of produce direct from the producer
  • farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • 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
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