14-letter words containing f, a, r, e, s
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
- ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
- ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferromanganese — a ferroalloy containing up to 90 percent manganese.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- file separator — (character) (FS) ASCII character 28.
- file signature — A magic number.
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- fire-resistant — totally or almost totally unburnable.
- fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- first language — mother tongue
- first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
- first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
- first sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a company, squadron, etc., responsible for personnel and administration.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flame arrester — A flame arrester is a device which stops a flame from spreading along a pipe or tube.
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- 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-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- flinders grass — a drought-resistant pasture grass, Iseilema membranacea, native to inland regions of Australia and used as fodder.
- flinders range — a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3900 feet (1190 meters).
- florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
- flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
- fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
- foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
- for god's sake — Some people use expressions such as for God's sake, for heaven's sake, for goodness sake, or for Pete's sake in order to express annoyance or impatience, or to add force to a question or request. The expressions 'for God's sake' and 'for Christ's sake' could cause offence.
- for one's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.