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14-letter words containing a, c, t, i, n, f

  • conformational — manner of formation; structure; form, as of a physical entity.
  • confrontations — Plural form of confrontation.
  • contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
  • contact flying — flying an airplane in conditions of good visibility so that the course and altitude can be determined by observing points or objects on the ground; VFR
  • cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
  • fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
  • fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
  • fantastication — the act of making fantastic
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
  • fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
  • fighting chair — a chair fastened to the deck at the stern of a seagoing fishing boat for use by an angler in landing a large fish.
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
  • first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • france ancient — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, semé-de-lys or.
  • friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
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