14-letter words containing f, e, a
- half-heartedly — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- 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
- half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- 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
- harper's ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heart of stone — lack of compassion
- heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
- height of land — a watershed
- hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- 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 case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in defiance of — a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
- in full career — at full speed
- in one's favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- in the face of — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
- 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.
- infection rate — the rate at which a disease is spread among people
- inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
- inferoanterior — below and in front.
- infinitesimals — Plural form of infinitesimal.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- inflation rate — economy: price increase
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- insignificance — the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.
- instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
- interferential — of or relating to interference.