14-letter words containing f, e, t, l
- butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
- butterfly roof — a roof having more than one slope, each descending inward from the eaves.
- butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
- cache conflict — (storage) A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
- cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
- call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
- canton flannel — cotton flannel
- cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
- center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- 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.
- clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
- community life — the life and activities of a community
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- cotton flannel — a plain-weave or twill-weave fabric with nap on one side only
- council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- depth of field — the range of distance in front of and behind an object focused by an optical instrument, such as a camera or microscope, within which other objects will also appear clear and sharply defined in the resulting image
- despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
- differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- do the needful — to perform a necessary task
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.