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14-letter words containing f, e, c

  • film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
  • finance charge — interest or a fee charged for borrowing money or buying on credit.
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • fine champagne — a high-quality cognac distilled from grapes grown in the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne vineyards of western France.
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • fitness center — A fitness center in a hotel is a large room, usually containing special equipment, where people go to do physical exercise and get fit.
  • fitness centre — a place which has gym equipment
  • fitted kitchen — a kitchen with units that are attached to the wall
  • flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • flat character — an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.
  • flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
  • flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
  • flood defences — structures such as dams, artificial channels, etc, built to protect an area from flooding
  • floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
  • floor exercise — a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
  • flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • food processor — an electric appliance with interchangeable blades within a closed container into which food is inserted for slicing, shredding, mincing, chopping, puréeing, or otherwise processing at high speeds.
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • for all i care — I am completely indifferent
  • for the record — officially, openly
  • forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
  • force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
  • force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • foreign office — the department of a government that handles foreign affairs.
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
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