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

  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
  • patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • press fastener — snap fastener.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • rafferty rules — no rules at all
  • raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
  • reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
  • 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.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
  • 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 feature — sth designed to prevent injury
  • safety harness — apparatus with straps to secure sb
  • safety measure — a measure taken to increase or ensure safety or protection from danger
  • safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
  • saturated fats — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • 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 assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • 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-assertive — 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-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
  • self-restraint — restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
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