14-letter words containing a, f, i, n, c, e
- half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in defiance of — a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
- in full career — at full speed
- in the face of — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- 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
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- insignificance — the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
- jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
- jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- 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-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- mefenamic acid — a white powder, C 1 5 H 1 5 NO 2 , used as a mild analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic in certain types of arthritis and for the relief of moderate short-term pain due to dysmenorrhea.
- melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
- metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nonmaleficence — A lack or absence of maleficence.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
- office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.