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14-letter words containing a, f, s, t

  • paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
  • parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • passive safety — the practice of taking measures to reduce the consequences of accidents, as opposed to attempting to avoid them altogether
  • pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
  • patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
  • pontifications — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • postfix syntax — postfix notation
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • press fastener — snap fastener.
  • profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
  • quasi-infinite — immeasurably great: an infinite capacity for forgiveness.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • rafferty rules — no rules at all
  • raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
  • rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
  • reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • rip-off artist — a person who steals, cheats or swindles
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • safety feature — sth designed to prevent injury
  • safety harness — apparatus with straps to secure sb
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • safety measure — a measure taken to increase or ensure safety or protection from danger
  • safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
  • safety squeeze — squeeze play (def 1b).
  • safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • saint francois — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing generally W to the St. Lawrence River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • sanctification — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
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