14-letter words containing f, e, a
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
- change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
- channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- chapel of ease — a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
- checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
- chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
- chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
- chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
- chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
- cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
- climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- confessionally — in a confessional manner
- confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- 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.
- corneal reflex — Physiology. the closing of the eyelids induced by touching the cornea lightly.
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- cotton flannel — a plain-weave or twill-weave fabric with nap on one side only
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- 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).
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
- date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
- dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.