14-letter words containing a, f, l
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family compact — any influential clique
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- 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.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fd and c color — any of the synthetic pigments and dyes that are approved by the FDA for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.
- feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
- ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
- fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
- file separator — (character) (FS) ASCII character 28.
- file signature — A magic number.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).