14-letter words containing a, l, f, r, n, c
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- 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
- 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.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- old franconian — the Franconian language before 1100; Frankish.
- 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.
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- self-assurance — self-confidence.
- self-clearance — the act of clearing.
- self-insurance — insurance of one's property or interests against possible loss by the establishing of a special fund for the purpose instead of seeking coverage with an underwriter.
- self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- traffic island — a raised or marked-off area between lanes of a roadway, used by pedestrians to get out of the flow of traffic, as a place for traffic signals, for separating lanes, etc.
- ultraefficient — extremely or exceptionally efficient
- unartificially — in an unartificial manner
- ungracefulness — the state of being ungraceful
- villafranchian — designating or of a European geologic stage of the Lower Pleistocene and the Upper Pliocene
- welfare centre — a place where people or animals receive assistance
- wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).