4-Letter Words Containing: D,F

• resist or confront with resistance

• elude, especially in a baffling way

• challenge

• a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron

• Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

• The output of a diff program. A diff file.

• A difficult route.

• The quality of being different.

• A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

• A disagreement or argument.

• Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

• The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

• Choice; preference.

• An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

• The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

• (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).

• (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).

• The differential gear in an automobile etc

• A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things

• An infinitesimal change in a variable, or the result of differentiation

• One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.

• A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.

• To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.

• To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

• A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

• A fool; an idiot; a blockhead.

• A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.

• A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.

• A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.

• To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.

• To daunt.

• To toss (aside); to dismiss.

• To turn (someone) aside; divert.

• to take off from the body or head

• a productive insight

• the act of discovering something

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

• perceive or be contemporaneous with

• get something or somebody for a specific purpose

• make a discovery, make a new finding

• obtain through effort or management

• decide on and make a declaration about

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

• get or find back; recover the use of

• succeed in reaching; arrive at

• accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

• any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

• any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment

• anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

• food for domestic livestock

• provide as food

• give food to

• feed into; supply

• introduce continuously

• support or promote

• take in food; used of animals only

• serve as food for; be the food for

• move along, of liquids

• profit from in an exploitatory manner

• gratify

• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

• lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part

• people who have severe hearing impairments

• (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed

• make or render deaf

• having or displaying warmth or affection

• extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent

• (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for

• absurd or silly because unlikely