14-letter words containing f, e, s, t
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
- chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- cleft sentence — a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- code of ethics — an agreement on ethical standards for a profession or business
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- cost-effective — Something that is cost-effective saves or makes a lot of money in comparison with the costs involved.
- cost-efficient — cost-effective.
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cut sheet feed — the automatic movement of single sheets of paper through the platen of the printer
- dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- defect density — (programming) The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- definitiveness — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- disidentifying — Present participle of disidentify.
- disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- domestic staff — servants
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store