14-letter words containing c, o, n, e, i
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- expansion card — (hardware) A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
- expansionistic — Of, or pertaining to expansionism.
- export invoice — a document issued by an exporter to an importer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due
- export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- 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.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- 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 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
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
- floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- 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
- flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- foreign office — the department of a government that handles foreign affairs.
- foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- free companion — a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.
- french oceania — former name of French Polynesia.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
- fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
- function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.