14-letter words containing f, e, n, s
- square oneself — to make amends for damage, a wrong, hurt, etc. done by oneself to another
- staff sergeant — U.S. Air Force. a noncommissioned officer ranking below a technical sergeant and above an airman first class.
- stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
- stuffed animal — soft toy
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- successfulness — achieving or having achieved success.
- sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
- sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superefficient — extremely efficient
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- surfer's knobs — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
- synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
- the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
- thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
- to mend fences — If one country tries to mend fences with another, it tries to end a disagreement or quarrel with the other country. You can also say that two countries mend fences.
- transfer agent — a person, bank, or trust company officially designated to act for a corporation in executing and recording the transfers of its stock from one legal owner to another.
- transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
- transferential — of, relating to, or involving transference.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
- transrectifier — a device, usually a vacuum tube, that provides transrectification.
- turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- un-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- uncheerfulness — (of a person) lack of cheerfulness; gloominess; unhappiness
- unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
- unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
- unfriendedness — the state of being unfriended
- ungracefulness — the state of being ungraceful
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.