14-letter words containing f, a, s, c
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- confessionally — in a confessional manner
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- confrontations — Plural form of confrontation.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- crash for cash — denoting a type of insurance fraud in which people bring about road accidents to ensure that a substantial claim is made
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- cross-platform — (software, hardware) A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
- domestic staff — servants
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- 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 classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
- fish and chips — fried fish fillets and French fries.