14-letter words containing c, a, l, t
- 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.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family compact — any influential clique
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
- first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- flat character — an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.
- flight capital — funds transferred abroad in order to avoid high taxes or to provide for a person's needs if flight from the country becomes necessary
- 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.
- 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.
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- football match — a match played between two football teams
- football pitch — ground where soccer is played
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- galactic noise — unidentified radio-frequency radiation originating from beyond the solar system.
- galactic plane — the plane of the galactic equator.
- galactic poles — either of the two opposite points on the celestial sphere that are farthest north and south of the Milky Way.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- galactopoiesis — increasing the secretion of milk.
- galactopoietic — increasing the secretion of milk.
- galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
- galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
- ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.