| CONFEDERATION | • confederation n. A union or alliance of states or political organizations. • confederation n. The act of forming an alliance. • Confederation prop.n. In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick… |
| DEFORCIATIONS | • DEFORCIATION n. (obsolete) a legal distress. |
| DEFORESTATION | • deforestation n. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system. • deforestation n. (Computing theory) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program. • DEFORESTATION n. the act of clearing forests. |
| DEFORMATIONAL | • deformational adj. Pertaining to, due to, or causing deformation. • DEFORMATIONAL adj. relating to deformation. |
| DORSIFLEXIONS | • dorsiflexions n. Plural of dorsiflexion. • DORSIFLEXION n. a bending backwards; a bending of the back. |
| FOOLHARDINESS | • foolhardiness n. The quality of being foolhardy. • FOOLHARDINESS n. the state of being foolhardy. |
| FOREGROUNDING | • foregrounding v. Present participle of foreground. • FOREGROUND v. to bring to the foreground, the part of a picture or field of view nearest the observer's eye. |
| FOREMENTIONED | • forementioned adj. Alternative form of aforementioned. • FOREMENTIONED adj. mentioned before in writing or speech, also AFOREMENTIONED. |
| FOREORDAINING | • foreordaining v. Present participle of foreordain. • FOREORDAIN v. to ordain or appoint beforehand. |
| FORESHADOWING | • foreshadowing v. Present participle of foreshadow. • foreshadowing n. (Literature, usually uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations… • FORESHADOWING n. the act of foreshadowing. |
| FOUNDATIONERS | • foundationers n. Plural of foundationer. • FOUNDATIONER n. a person supported from the funds or foundation of an institution. |
| FURAZOLIDONES | • furazolidones n. Plural of furazolidone. • FURAZOLIDONE n. an antimicrobial drug used against bacteria and some protozoa esp. in infections of the gastrointestinal tract. |
| MIDAFTERNOONS | • midafternoons n. Plural of midafternoon. |
| OVERCONFIDENT | • overconfident adj. Too confident. • overconfident adj. Presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful. • OVERCONFIDENT adj. excessively confident. |
| PROOFREADINGS | • proofreadings n. Plural of proofreading. • PROOFREADING n. the process of reading to check for mistakes. |
| REFOUNDATIONS | • refoundations n. Plural of refoundation. • REFOUNDATION n. the act of refounding. |
| WATERFLOODING | • waterflooding v. Present participle of waterflood. • WATERFLOODING n. the practice, in oil, gas or petroleum production, of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc. towards the production wells. |