14-letter words containing f, e, l
- change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
- 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
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
- childbed fever — puerperal fever.
- 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
- 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
- cleft sentence — a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom.
- clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
- clerk of works — an employee who supervises building work in progress or the upkeep of existing buildings
- 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.
- clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
- coffee-colored — having the medium-brown color of coffee mixed with cream or milk; moderately brown.
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
- community life — the life and activities of a community
- confessionally — in a confessional manner
- 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.
- coriolis force — a fictitious force used to explain a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the earth when observed from the earth. The deflection (Coriolis effect) is due to the earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
- corneal reflex — Physiology. the closing of the eyelids induced by touching the cornea lightly.
- cotton flannel — a plain-weave or twill-weave fabric with nap on one side only
- council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- deer fly fever — tularemia.
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.