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14-letter words containing e, f, c, t

  • chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
  • chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
  • chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
  • chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • city of dundee — a council area in E Scotland. Pop: 143 090 (2003 est). Area: 65 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • cleft sentence — a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom.
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • code of ethics — an agreement on ethical standards for a profession or business
  • coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
  • commitment fee — a charge made by a bank, in addition to interest, to make a loan available to a potential borrower
  • community life — the life and activities of a community
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • compton effect — a phenomenon in which a collision between a photon and a particle results in an increase in the kinetic energy of the particle and a corresponding increase in the wavelength of the photon
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
  • copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
  • cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • cost-effective — Something that is cost-effective saves or makes a lot of money in comparison with the costs involved.
  • cost-efficient — cost-effective.
  • cotton flannel — a plain-weave or twill-weave fabric with nap on one side only
  • council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
  • counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
  • crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • cruft together — (jargon)   To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cut sheet feed — the automatic movement of single sheets of paper through the platen of the printer
  • cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
  • cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • defect density — (programming)   The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
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