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14-letter words containing f, e, l, s, n

  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • in single file — one behind another
  • infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • infinitesimals — Plural form of infinitesimal.
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflectionless — Without inflection.
  • inflexibleness — The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
  • killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • let oneself go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
  • life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
  • mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
  • moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
  • moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
  • neglectfulness — The characteristic of being neglectful.
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • new forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
  • newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
  • non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
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