14-letter words containing f, e, c
- electric field — a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force
- electrifyingly — In an electrifying manner.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- ergocalciferol — Constituent of vitamin D1 and vitamin D2.
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
- excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- feel compelled — If you feel compelled to do something, you feel that you must do it, because it is the right thing to do.
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.
- fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- field exercise — a military exercise in which mock warfare is staged between two forces.
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- field of force — the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.