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

  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
  • brief of title — abstract of title
  • burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
  • butterfly bush — buddleia
  • butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • 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
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • 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
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
  • 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.
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
  • counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
  • crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
  • 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).
  • cruft together — (jargon)   To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
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