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14-letter words containing f, e, r, i, c

  • grid reference — geographical co-ordinates
  • grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
  • health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
  • high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
  • hyperefficient — more efficient than normal
  • in full career — at full speed
  • indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
  • inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
  • infection rate — the rate at which a disease is spread among people
  • inference rule — (logic)   A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
  • junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • 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.
  • line of credit — credit line (def 2).
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
  • midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
  • mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
  • morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
  • non-reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
  • non-reflective — not capable of or not designed to reflect light
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • nonproficiency — absence or lack of proficiency.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
  • offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
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