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14-letter words containing s, i, d, e, f, o

  • freedom riders — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • 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.
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
  • mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
  • non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
  • non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
  • nondiversified — Not diversified.
  • opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-exploited — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-glorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
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