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14-letter words containing f, e, t, l, o, c

  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
  • inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • inflectionless — Without inflection.
  • left-of-center — holding liberal views in politics; left-wing.
  • left-of-centre — Left-of-centre people or political parties support political ideas which are closer to socialism than to capitalism.
  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • line of credit — credit line (def 2).
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
  • 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
  • nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
  • occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
  • old-field colt — catch-colt (def 2).
  • olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
  • petty official — a minor official in government, etc
  • placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
  • retroreflector — See under retroreflective.
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • self-collected — having or showing self-control; composed; self-possessed.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-contented — contented with what one is or has
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-selection — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.
  • soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
  • space platform — space station.
  • steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • teleconference — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
  • traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
  • 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
  • wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
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