14-letter words containing a, f, e, r
- harper's ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heart of stone — lack of compassion
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- in full career — at full speed
- in one's favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- infection rate — the rate at which a disease is spread among people
- inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
- inferoanterior — below and in front.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- inflation rate — economy: price increase
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- interferential — of or relating to interference.
- interfibrillar — situated between fibrils.
- interfraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- internet-draft — (I-D) A draft working document of the Internet Engineering Task Force, its Areas, and its Working Groups. As the name implies, Internet-Drafts are purely discussion documents with no formal status. They are valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. Very often, an I-D is a precursor to a Request For Comments.
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- it's a feature — (jargon) From the adage "It's not a bug, it's a feature." Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant experience that you wish to gloss over.
- juan fernandez — a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.
- jungle warfare — the specialized techniques required by the military to survive and fight in jungle terrain
- kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- kidney failure — loss of renal function
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
- leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
- leave for dead — to abandon
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- life-affirming — A life-affirming activity or attitude emphasizes the positive aspects of life.
- loophole frame — a frame in the opening of a wall enclosing a window and some other opening.
- lord of appeal — one of several judges appointed to assist the House of Lords in hearing appeals
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.