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14-letter words containing a, n, e, o, f

  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • confessionally — in a confessional manner
  • confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
  • corneal reflex — Physiology. the closing of the eyelids induced by touching the cornea lightly.
  • cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • cotton flannel — a plain-weave or twill-weave fabric with nap on one side only
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • defeminization — (in a developing organism) the process in which full development into a female of the species is prevented because of a male developmental characteristic
  • defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • differentiator — a person or thing that differentiates.
  • 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.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • 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.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
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