14-letter words containing e, n, g, i, f, a
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- man of galilee — Jesus.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
- outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
- oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- route flapping — flapping router
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- self-annealing — denoting certain metals, such as lead, tin, and zinc, that recrystallize at air temperatures and so may be cold-worked without strain-hardening
- self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
- self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- self-financing — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
- self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
- soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
- spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
- tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- tenant farming — farming land owned by sb else
- unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
- unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
- virginia fence — snake fence.
- wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.