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

  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • insignificance — the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • 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)
  • jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
  • jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
  • 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.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • 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.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • 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.
  • machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
  • 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.
  • metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
  • mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
  • misidentifying — Present participle of misidentify.
  • misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • nine-to-fivers — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
  • 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.
  • non-infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
  • nondiversified — Not diversified.
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
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