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14-letter words containing f, a, l, t, e

  • 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
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
  • cotton flannel — a plain-weave or twill-weave fabric with nap on one side only
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
  • dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
  • dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
  • elevator shaft — passage for a lift
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
  • 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 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 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 positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • 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-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-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • farm-gate sale — the sale of produce direct from the producer
  • fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
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