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14-letter words containing f, e, a

  • binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
  • blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • blended family — a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
  • board of trade — (in the United Kingdom) a ministry within the Department of Trade: responsible for the supervision of commerce and the promotion of export trade
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
  • boundary fence — a fence between properties
  • bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
  • bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
  • bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • briefing paper — a document providing relevant facts and information
  • buffalo beetle — the hairy larva of a carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), harmful to furs and woolens
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • cafe con leche — a drink made by mixing strong coffee with hot or scalded milk
  • café macchiato — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and a small amount of foamed milk.
  • cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • camp fire girl — a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, Inc., an organization for girls founded in 1910, and since 1975 also including boys, to promote character-building activities
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
  • canton flannel — cotton flannel
  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
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