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14-letter words containing f, a, n, t, s, r

  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
  • paper fastener — split pin
  • parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • press fastener — snap fastener.
  • profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
  • reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • safety harness — apparatus with straps to secure sb
  • saint francois — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing generally W to the St. Lawrence River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
  • santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-restraint — restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
  • self-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
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