14-letter words containing f, a, t, y
- performability — the quality of being performable
- petty official — a minor official in government, etc
- platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
- play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
- postfix syntax — postfix notation
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
- rafferty rules — no rules at all
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
- 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 islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
- 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.
- safety squeeze — squeeze play (def 1b).
- safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
- satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
- shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
- stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
- syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
- take away from — detract
- take years off — to make (someone) feel or look much younger
- trafficability — the condition of soil or terrain with regard to its being traveled over, as by people, vehicles, or machinery.
- tyndall effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- tyndall-effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- unartificially — in an unartificial manner
- unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
- unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
- unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
- unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
- wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
- west lafayette — a city in central Indiana: suburb of Lafayette.