14-letter words containing c, a, f, o
- exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
- 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
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- 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
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- 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.
- fd and c color — any of the synthetic pigments and dyes that are approved by the FDA for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
- follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- football match — a match played between two football teams
- football pitch — ground where soccer is played
- for all i care — I am completely indifferent
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- fort-de-france — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- fortifications — Plural form of fortification.