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14-letter words containing f, e, r, o, t, i

  • rooting reflex — a reflex in infants in which the head is turned towards any stimulus; used to find the nipple
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
  • self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • sorting office — postal
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • stereospecific — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • to return fire — If you return fire or you return someone's fire, you shoot back at someone who has shot at you.
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • tourist office — information centre for sightseers
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
  • traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
  • transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
  • turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
  • underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
  • vienna fortran — A data-parallel extension of Fortran 77 for distributed memory multiprocessors by Hans Zima <[email protected]>, Vienna University.
  • water fountain — a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • well-fortified — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
  • wind deflector — an accessory that can be fitted to parts of a vehicle that are often open when driving, such as windows and sunroofs, to prevent the driver and passengers being buffeted by wind as well as reducing noise and keeping out flying debris
  • wriggle out of — evade: a duty
  • writ of extent — extent (def 4a).
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