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14-letter words containing e, f, o, r

  • butterfly roof — a roof having more than one slope, each descending inward from the eaves.
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • church of rome — the Roman Catholic Church
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • clerk of works — an employee who supervises building work in progress or the upkeep of existing buildings
  • clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
  • 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 honour — the standards of behaviour regarded as proper
  • coercive force — a measure of the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material as expressed by the external magnetic field strength necessary to demagnetize it. Measured in amperes per metre
  • coercive-force — the magnetic intensity needed to reduce to zero the magnetic flux density of a fully magnetized magnetic specimen or to demagnetize a magnet.
  • coffee grinder — A coffee grinder is a machine for grinding coffee beans.
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • coffee morning — A coffee morning is a social event at which coffee and tea are served. It takes place in the morning, and is usually intended to raise money for charity.
  • coffee service — a set of china consisting of coffee cups and saucers, a pot, milk jug, and sugar bowl
  • coffee-colored — having the medium-brown color of coffee mixed with cream or milk; moderately brown.
  • 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.
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • 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.
  • coriolis force — a fictitious force used to explain a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the earth when observed from the earth. The deflection (Coriolis effect) is due to the earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
  • corneal reflex — Physiology. the closing of the eyelids induced by touching the cornea lightly.
  • 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
  • coup de foudre — a sudden and amazing action or event
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • 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).
  • crossreference — Alternative form of cross-reference.
  • cruft together — (jargon)   To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
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