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14-letter words containing d, e, f

  • definitiveness — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
  • 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.
  • demand feeding — the practice of feeding a baby whenever it seems to be hungry, rather than at set intervals
  • 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
  • depth of field — the range of distance in front of and behind an object focused by an optical instrument, such as a camera or microscope, within which other objects will also appear clear and sharply defined in the resulting image
  • depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
  • deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
  • despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
  • 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.
  • diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
  • different than — different from
  • differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
  • differentiated — Recognize or ascertain what makes (someone or something) different.
  • differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
  • differentiator — a person or thing that differentiates.
  • diffie-hellman — (cryptography)   A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
  • 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.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
  • disidentifying — Present participle of disidentify.
  • 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.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • 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
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • 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.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
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