14-letter words containing f, a, r, c, e, l
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flat character — an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- for all i care — I am completely indifferent
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- free and clear — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- in full career — at full speed
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
- leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
- norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
- peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable