14-letter words containing f, i, c, e, s
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- field exercise — a military exercise in which mock warfare is staged between two forces.
- filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- fitness center — A fitness center in a hotel is a large room, usually containing special equipment, where people go to do physical exercise and get fit.
- fitness centre — a place which has gym equipment
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- floor exercise — a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- free-associate — to engage in free association.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- inefficiencies — Plural form of inefficiency.
- infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inflectionless — Without inflection.