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14-letter words containing c, o, e, f, i, n

  • over-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
  • overconfidence — too confident.
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • 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.
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
  • relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • self-communion — (often initial capital letter). Also called Holy Communion. Ecclesiastical. the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements. the elements of the Eucharist. the celebration of the Eucharist. the antiphon sung at a Eucharistic service.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-confining — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
  • self-conscious — excessively aware of being observed by others.
  • self-consoling — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-exclusion — an act or instance of excluding.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • self-selection — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.
  • sorting office — postal
  • state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
  • unaffectionate — showing, indicating, or characterized by affection or love; fondly tender: an affectionate embrace.
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