14-letter words containing f, e, t, a
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- faute de mieux — for lack of anything better
- feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
- ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferry operator — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
- ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
- fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
- fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- file separator — (character) (FS) ASCII character 28.
- file signature — A magic number.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
- finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- fire-resistant — totally or almost totally unburnable.
- fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.
- fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)