14-letter words containing f, a, i, n
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
- disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- 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.
- faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
- fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
- false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
- 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
- false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- 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
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.