14-letter words containing a, t, n, s, o, f
- false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
- false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
- 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.
- final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
- fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flashing point — flash point (def 1).
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
- for one's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
- fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- heart of stone — lack of compassion
- heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
- 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.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.