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14-letter words containing f, e, a, l, i

  • foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • football field — ground where soccer is played
  • for all i care — I am completely indifferent
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
  • 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.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • fraternal twin — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
  • 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
  • frilled lizard — a medium-sized Australian lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingi, having a large, cloaklike flap of skin on the neck that stiffens during courtship or threat displays, forming a wide ruff.
  • frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
  • gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
  • happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
  • health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
  • in all my life — You can use in all my life or in my life to emphasize that you have never previously experienced something to such a degree.
  • in full career — at full speed
  • indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
  • indie landfill — a derogatory term for indie music considered to be mediocre
  • ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
  • infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
  • infinitesimals — Plural form of infinitesimal.
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