14-letter words containing f, e, r, o, t
- forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
- forest reserve — an area of forest set aside and preserved by the government as a wilderness, national park, or the like.
- forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fort jefferson — a national monument in Dry Tortugas, Fla.: a federal prison 1863–73; now a marine museum.
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- fort-de-france — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
- fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
- fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
- fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- 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.
- forward market — future commodities trading
- foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
- founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
- fraternization — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- free variation — a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- free-associate — to engage in free association.
- freeze (on) to — to cling to; hold fast to
- freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
- friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
- from the floor — during the time of a game when active defense is permitted
- front of house — restaurant
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- front-end load — the sales commission and other fees taken out of the first year's payment under a contractual plan for purchasing shares of a mutual fund (front-end load fund) over a period of years.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.