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14-letter words containing f, e, n, g, t

  • file signature — A magic number.
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • fingerpointing — Alternative form of finger-pointing.
  • fingerprinting — Present participle of fingerprint.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a company, squadron, etc., responsible for personnel and administration.
  • fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
  • 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.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
  • forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
  • freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.
  • freight engine — a locomotive for pulling freight trains, designed for high drawbar pull rather than high speed.
  • fringe benefit — any of various benefits, as free life or health insurance, paid holidays, a pension, etc., received by an employee in addition to regular pay.
  • fringe meeting — a meeting that takes place during a convention and is attended only by people whose views are not central to the majority
  • fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
  • gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • getting on for — Getting on for means the same as nearly.
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • height of land — a watershed
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • interfingering — (of sedimentary rocks) to change laterally from one type to another in a zone where the two types form interpenetrating wedges.
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