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14-letter words containing a, f, g

  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • configurations — Plural form of configuration.
  • conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
  • 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
  • cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
  • defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • demand feeding — the practice of feeding a baby whenever it seems to be hungry, rather than at set intervals
  • 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.
  • disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • 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.
  • dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • ergocalciferol — Constituent of vitamin D1 and vitamin D2.
  • exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
  • falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
  • false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
  • false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
  • false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • farm-gate sale — the sale of produce direct from the producer
  • farmer-general — (in France, under the old monarchy) a member of a company of capitalists that farmed certain taxes.
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
  • feather-legged — cowardly.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
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