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14-letter words containing f, e, t, r, s

  • sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • 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.
  • soft tree fern — an Australian tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica, with a thick trunk and large spreading green fronds
  • software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
  • somar software — (company)   The distributors of Somar DumpAcl and other utilities for Windows NT. Address: Washington, DC, USA.
  • sorting office — postal
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • space platform — space station.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • staff sergeant — U.S. Air Force. a noncommissioned officer ranking below a technical sergeant and above an airman first class.
  • state of grace — grace (def 8d).
  • steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
  • stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
  • stereospecific — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
  • sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • street fighter — a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.
  • strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sulfuric ether — ether (def 1).
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superefficient — extremely efficient
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
  • sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
  • take years off — to make (someone) feel or look much younger
  • terms of trade — the ratio of export prices to import prices. It measures a nation's trading position, which improves when export prices rise faster or fall slower than import prices
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • tourist office — information centre for sightseers
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